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Message:: [QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2885840, member: 14873"]I have always liked coins of this issue. I have owned several examples over the years, most of them quite “scuzzy”. I just bought the second coin pictured below from Victor Clark because I simply couldn’t resist the superb portrait - the best I have encountered on a coin in this series: RIC VI, Londinium, No. 85/90, Maximian Herculius as Augustus emerged from retirement: <img src="http://jp29.org/lon690o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lon690r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />DN MAXIMINIANO PFS AVG ................................... GENIO POP ROM -- PLN The only differention in RIC Volume VI between No. 85 and No. 90 is that the personification of Genius on the reverse wears a modius on his head on No. 85 and a towered headdress on No. 90 (his loins are draped on both). I have always found it difficult to discern the difference on worn reverses. RIC VI, Londinium, No. 85/90, Maximian Herculius as Augustus emerged from retirement: <img src="http://jp29.org/000hercx.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Same legends as the above coin.I believe Genius is wearing a modius on his head here.Victor Clark photo used with his permission (I haven’t had the opportunity to photograph the coin yet).[/QUOTE]