Hi folks, Can you give me more specifics on this coin. It was suppose to be Herculanius Maximinus It is not. I believe Diocletian. Upon second look maybe it is Herculanius….I can’t make it out. Rich
Thanks a lot… I must be blind. I do not see a Galerius in the catalog. Biga Auction 7….Coin shipped as #850 but it is not #850???
This is lot 850 https://www.biddr.com/auctions/biganumismatics/browse?a=2140&l=2357918 Which is also not Maximianus nor the coin you posted.
If you search there are 2 Galerius in Auction 7. But still not the coin you received. https://www.biddr.com/auctions/biga...ce_from=&aso_price_to=&aso_price_currency=EUR
If you are going to collect this period you must be very careful about every letter and every 'rule' to separate the various players. You wrote Maximinus but the coin is clearly MaximiAnus. There are no coins of the first Maximianus as Caesar so coins with the extra A have to be the man we call Galerius. Historians have given us name conventions like Galerius even though only some of his coins have an abbreviation of that name. I would have preferred we call him Maximianus II. In the hope that I could help people having trouble with this, in 1998 I posted my page on the matter. https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/max.html I apologize for the poor photos on that page. I never upgraded them from the scanned prints I was making before I got a digital camera. I do believe the information there would help anyone who is troubled by the matter. One each, Maximianus (Hercules), Maximianus II (Galerius), Maximinus (way back in 235-238) and Maximinus II (Daza): I may be unreasonable but I still believe that we should patronize sellers who can identify what they sell correctly and not those who make false claims of being worth their buyer's premium. If you wanted a coin of any of the rulers of this period you could have chosen one from the stock of a thousand dealers with a clue. Oh, look! There goes one now!
