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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 6477477, member: 44316"]Yes. RIC does in order to be clear he is not Galerius, who had a similar name. Diocletian's favored deity was Jove and Maximian's was Hercules. We don't need to append "Jovean" to "Diocletian" because there is no one else with a similar name. We append something to "MAXIMIANVS" because, as the first coin shows, that name alone does not determine which emperor it is. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a page on distinguishing coins of Maximian from those of Galerius:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 6477477, member: 44316"]Yes. RIC does in order to be clear he is not Galerius, who had a similar name. Diocletian's favored deity was Jove and Maximian's was Hercules. We don't need to append "Jovean" to "Diocletian" because there is no one else with a similar name. We append something to "MAXIMIANVS" because, as the first coin shows, that name alone does not determine which emperor it is. Here is a page on distinguishing coins of Maximian from those of Galerius: [URL]http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/distinguishing.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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