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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4052392, member: 19463&quot;]This comes up so often that I am ready to say we should change the way we name someone even though he has been called that by historians for a long time.&nbsp; There are, I believe, no Ae coins of Galerius that bear that name spelled out. Most use GAL. There are a couple that use GALER but without the IVS (an item now on my want list).&nbsp; I suspect, to him, he was primarily Maximianus and you should use that name when addressing him (while being prostrate before him, of course).&nbsp; We should call him &quot;Maximianus II&quot; since using Galerius just transfers the problem to separating the GAL VAL with an A and the GAL VAL without the extra A.&nbsp; If people realized that any coin reading MAXIMIANUS needs to be examined to see which of the two &quot;two A&#039;s&quot; it was, we might have less confusion. We still would have to rely on counting A&#039;s to spot the Maximi(no a)nus coins in the bunch.&nbsp; Speed reading may be a wonderful skill for novels but it is not so good for coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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