Laureate Fraction - Maxentius VOT QQ MVL XX; Ostia

Maxentius struck these votive issues from Ostia — his personally controlled mint — during his standoff with Constantine, who held the western Alpine passes and was advancing on Italy. The VOT QQ MVL XX legend records a vow made for a fifth anniversary in power that Maxentius never lived to reach; he drowned in the Tiber at Milvian Bridge in October 312 before the decade completed. Ostia mint coins of his final years carry the MOSTIA or MOSTP officina marks, and the mint itself was shuttered by Constantine almost immediately after the battle.