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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3448137, member: 44316"][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] , thanks again. I deleted "coins of" which was not intended and not correct. It now reads, "Two ancient sources (Panegyri Latani 10(2) and Eutropius, Breviarum, IX, 20) , say that Diocletian made Maximian Caesar (mid 285) and later Augustus (early 286; the precise dates are disputed), so there was a time period when Maximian had the title Caesar but not the title Augustus. Nevertheless, scholars have identified no coins of Maximian without the title Augustus.  Coins in that period must have been minted in the name of Diocletian only." The early period of Diocletian's reign and his promotion of Maximian has been the subject of much scholarly attention for over a century. If it were just coins, we would think Maximian was promoted straight to Augustus. By the way, I have not read the original sources, rather extracted my information from Williams' book Diocletian and the Roman Recovery. <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html</a>[/QUOTE]