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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2047191, member: 19463&quot;]If you read between the lines on these, you see that the Maximinus II is rated scarce while the other two rulers are common.&nbsp; The issue that follows this at Heraclea was only in the name of Maximinus with no Licinius or Constantine versions.&nbsp; RIC separates them by before and after Maximinus took Heraclea.&nbsp; When he was just &#039;the other&#039; Augustus, the mint was not making as many of his coins but when he broke the peace and took the town belonging to Licinius, he stopped the issues for his opponents.&nbsp; Throughout the period, various rulers maintained various degrees of peace and tension with the other rulers.&nbsp; It can be interesting to align the coins with the politics of the day and perhaps better understand why some are more scarce or less well made than others.&nbsp; Diocletian set up a system to run the huge empire most efficiently by splitting power up among men who would be quite happy to be the sole ruler.&nbsp; Diocletian was actually about the only guy who liked the system.&nbsp; After he retired it was just a matter of time until someone killed off the competition and took the whole package.&nbsp; That was Constantine.&nbsp; My Maximinus was from the beginning of the end for that ruler.&nbsp; 313 AD was an interesting year for fans of violence in government.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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