Coin talk => COTD => Topic started by: Victor on January 14, 2021, 09:23:59 AM
Title: DIVO MAXIMIANO PATRI from Rome
Post by: Victor on January 14, 2021, 09:23:59 AM
Here's a rarer type with a neat obverse legend that just sold on eBay. It was issued by Maxentius for his father-- who he apparently got along with fine after his death.
circa 310- 311 OBV: IMP MAXENTIVS DIVO MAXIMIANO PATRI REV: AETERNAE MEMORIAE RIC VI Rome 244
Title: Re: DIVO MAXIMIANO PATRI from Rome
Post by: Heliodromus on January 14, 2021, 01:28:16 PM
These are nice - sometime with very elaborate mauseleums.
I'd like to collect them, but kinda expensive for something that's not really my focus.
The legends on these are interesting - spelling out exactly who all these illustrious dead relatives are :
IMP MAXENTIVS DIVO CONSTANTIO COGN
Brother-in-law / Kinsman
IMP MAXENTIVS DIVO CONSTANTIO ADFINI
Cousin
IMP MAXENTIVS DIVO ROMVLO N V FILIO
Son
IMP MAXENTIVS DIVO MAXIMIANO PATRI
Father
IMP MAXENTIVS DIVO MAXIMIANO SOCERO
Father-in-law (Galerius)
As you say, maybe easier (for Maxentius, at least) to like people when they are dead... No mention of living relatives Constantine or Fausta!
Title: Re: DIVO MAXIMIANO PATRI from Rome
Post by: Victor on January 14, 2021, 05:03:55 PM
I think that a lot of people are like Maxentius, in that deceased relatives are set up on a pedestal. I have been in several genealogical groups, like Sons of the American Revoulution, and all the dead ancestors are awesome...living ones not so much. ::)