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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3121406, member: 75937&quot;]I think the source of confusion is that some of those participating in the thread do not seem to know that &quot;radiate&quot; means &quot;coin where the emperor is wearing a radiate (spiky) crown.&quot; If the emperor is wearing a laurel wreath/crown, it&#039;s NOT a radiate. </p><p><br /></p><p>Looking through this thread, I see folles with a laureate bust being called radiates and I see people baffled as to why folles might be silvered. These misunderstandings might have been avoided had the term &quot;radiate&quot; been explicitly defined (for those who don&#039;t know) early in the thread. </p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian pre-reform radiate. Note the spiky, radiate crown on the bust. Note the XXI in the exergue in addition to the officina marking between the figures on the reverse (gamma):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794309[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of Maximian from the same workshop of the same mint and with the same design. It is therefore, of course, pre-reform. It has much original silvering remaining:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794317[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Maximian, pre-reform. Same mint but different workshop. You can&#039;t tell by looking at it that it used to be silvered, but it was; the XXI in the exergue says so:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794316[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, compare this Diocletian <i><b>post-reform</b></i> radiate. Same CONCORDIA MILITVM reverse type. Emperor is wearing a spiky, radiate crown. Note the bigger portrait. Note the ABSENCE of XXI in the exergue. Note there is now a mint mark (eta, the first letter of the Greek spelling of Heraclea) before the workshop number (gamma) between the figures on the reverse. These issues were <i><b>no longer silvered</b></i>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794314[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is a follis of Galerius. Because the follis denomination arose as a consequence of the currency reform, it is post-reform. But it is NOT a radiate, because the emperor wears a laurel crown, not a radiate crown. It is a different denomination. It was larger than a radiate and it <i><b>was</b></i> silvered: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]794306[/ATTACH] </p><p>Galerius, A.D. 305-311.</p><p>Roman AE follis, 26.0 mm, 7.73 g, 12 h.</p><p>Heraclea mint, AD 310-311.</p><p>Obv: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate head right.</p><p>Rev: GENIO IMPERATORIS, Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopia; */HTE Refs: RIC 48a; RCV 14514; Cohen 48.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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