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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 1979008, member: 44316"]I recently bought this Galerius follis which was misdescribed as a Maximianus:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]352709[/ATTACH] </p><p>28-26 mm. 9.66 grams. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, the legend says "MAXIMIANVS" but that was also the name of the emperor we call Galerius. They had very similar names in Roman times, but we distinguish them clearly in modern times. One was M. Aurelius Valerius Maximianus and the other C. Galerius Valerius Maximianus. The emperor we know as Maximianus was made Augustus by Diocletian without passing through the lower rank of Caesar. Any coin of "MAXIMIANVS" that continues on to say Caesar is necessarily of Galerius. By the way, the emperor we call "Maximinus II" was C. Galerius Valerius Maximinus, only one letter different from Galerius. This coin is from Trier, RIC 594b, dated to c.303 - 1 May 305 (after which Galerius was Augustus and not Caesar).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 1979008, member: 44316"]I recently bought this Galerius follis which was misdescribed as a Maximianus: [ATTACH=full]352709[/ATTACH] 28-26 mm. 9.66 grams. Yes, the legend says "MAXIMIANVS" but that was also the name of the emperor we call Galerius. They had very similar names in Roman times, but we distinguish them clearly in modern times. One was M. Aurelius Valerius Maximianus and the other C. Galerius Valerius Maximianus. The emperor we know as Maximianus was made Augustus by Diocletian without passing through the lower rank of Caesar. Any coin of "MAXIMIANVS" that continues on to say Caesar is necessarily of Galerius. By the way, the emperor we call "Maximinus II" was C. Galerius Valerius Maximinus, only one letter different from Galerius. This coin is from Trier, RIC 594b, dated to c.303 - 1 May 305 (after which Galerius was Augustus and not Caesar).[/QUOTE]
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