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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3226315, member: 44316&quot;]I love coins of the tetrarchy (founded by Diocletian). Books often say the art of the period emphasized unity and their portraits are almost indistinguishable. That is false in the realm of coinage. Maximian usually looks much different from the others (especially because his nose is often upturned, or at least has a bulb on its end, and his co-rulers did not). The portraits may be less realistic, but they are usually still distinguishable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll let others post other styles of coins of Maximian and the other tetrarchs. I am posting this one which just arrived. I wanted it because from this mint (Nicomedia) the style really is tetrarchal and not very individual.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]841133[/ATTACH]</p><p>You can still see his (here only slightly) ski-jump nose, but what attracted me was the huge round head and thick tree-trunk neck. Clearly the realism of earlier styles was not the goal of the engraver.</p><p>27-26 mm. 9.275 grams.</p><p>IMP C MA MAXIMIANVS PF AVG</p><p>laureate head right</p><p>GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing left [an extremely common type]</p><p>SMNA</p><p>RIC VI Nicomedia 29b, &quot;c. 303-304&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us some other coins of the tetrarchy![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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