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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2873063, member: 14873&quot;]There is always the possibility of miss-attributing Maximian Herculius and Galerius Maximian folles, for it is often hard to differentiate their name forms and titulature. Following is an excerpt from one of my web pages (it focuses on Tetrarchic reformed, unreduced, folles produced by the London Mint, but the titulature information is ubiquitous):</p><p>...................................</p><p>Inasmuch as the information on this web page relates to the reformed, unreduced, folles catalogued and described in THE ROMAN IMPERIAL COINAGE (RIC), Volume VI, I employ the Imperial name forms used in the headers by Sutherland here. The following depiction includes the alternate name forms frequently used by collectors, dealers and authors of historical texts and reference documents:</p><p><br /></p><p>DIOCLETIAN ........................ (no other names commonly used)</p><p>MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS ...... Maximianus, Herculius</p><p>CONSTANTIUS .................... Constantius I, Constantius Chlorus</p><p>GALERIUS MAXIMIAN ......... Galerius</p><p>SEVERUS ............................. Severus II,</p><p>MAXIMINUS .......................... Maximinus II, Maximinus Daia, Daza</p><p>CONSTANTINE ..................... Constantine I, Constantinus</p><p>MAXENTIUS .......................... (no other names commonly used)</p><p>LICINIUS ................................ Licinius I, Licinius Licinianus</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Note:</b> Caution should be exercised when attributing the coins of Galerius Maximian <i>(Caius Galerius Valerius Maximianus)</i> &amp; Maximian Herculius (<i>Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus</i>) due to the similarity of their titulature. Galerius Maximian was both Caesar and Augustus during this time period whereas Maximian Herculius was always only Augustus. Therefor coins bearing the titulature MAXIMIANVS plus NOBIL CAES, NOB CAES, NOBIL C, etc., can only be those of Galerius Maximian. There is a special problem with Galerius as Augustus coins: The titulature is mostly exactly the same as that of Maximian Herculius and frequently the only way to differentiate between the two is by the portraiture on the coin obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will include image examples in my next post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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