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Message:: [QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2937456, member: 14873"]I thought it best to make this a separate thread from that of the (superb) Diocletian thread of Coin Talk member Curtisimo. MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS (MAXIMIANUS) and GALERIUS MAXIMIAN (GALERIUS) folles titulature and attribution Following are the Imperial name forms used in the section headers of THE ROMAN IMPERIAL COINAGE (RIC), Volume VI, followed by the name forms most frequently used by coin collectors and dealers: MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS ...... Maximianus GALERIUS MAXIMIAN ......... Galerius  Caution should be exercised when attributing folles of Maximian Herculius (Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus) & Galerius Maximian (Caius Galerius Valerius Maximianus) due to the similarity of their titulature. Maximian Herculius was always only Augustus during this time period whereas Galerius Maximian was first Caesar and then Augustus. Therefor coins bearing the titulature MAXIMIANVS plus NOB C, NOBIL CAES, NOB CAES, NOBIL C, etc., can only be those of Galerius Maximian. There is a special problem with Galerius as Augustus coins: The titulature is mostly exactly the same as that of Maximian Herculius and frequently the only way to differentiate between the two is by the portraiture on the coin obverse. MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS (MAXIMIANUS) titulature SELECTED EXAMPLE COINS: RIC VI, Londinium, No. 17, Maximian Herculius, Augustus of the West: <img src="http://jp29.org/lon17o1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lon17r1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />IMP C MAXIMIANVS PF AVG ............................. GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI RIC VI, Londinium, No. 25, Maximian Herculius, Augustus of the West: <img src="http://jp29.org/lon25o1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lon25r1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />IMP MAXIMIANVS PF AVG .................................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI GALERIUS MAXIMIAN (GALERIUS) as CAESAR titulature SELECTED EXAMPLE COINS: Intermediate series coin (Bastien), not in RIC, Galerius Maximian, Caesar of the East: <img src="http://jp29.org/lonint1o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lonint1r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />C VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB C ................................ GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI RIC VI, Londinium, No. 21, Galerius Maximian, Caesar of the East: <img src="http://jp29.org/lon21o1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lon21r1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES .................................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI RIC VI, Londinium, No. 33, Galerius Maximian, Caesar of the East: <img src="http://jp29.org/lon33o1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lon33r1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />MAXIMIANVS NOBIL C ..................................... GENIO POPV -- LI ROMANI GALERIUS MAXIMIAN (GALERIUS) as AUGUSTUS titulature SELECTED EXAMPLE COIN: RIC VI, Londinium, No. 42, Galerius Maximian, Augustus of the East: <img src="http://jp29.org/lon42o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lon42r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />IMP C MAXIMIANVS PF AVG ...................................... GENIO POPV LI ROMANI Identical titulature to the primary one of Maximian Herculius[/QUOTE]

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