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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3830001, member: 19463&quot;]Diocletian, Maximianus and many other rulers tended to start their reigns with a longer obverse legend</p><p><br /></p><p>and later shorten it to just the name and major title.&nbsp; Below is a later Diocletian showing the short legend.</p><p><b>ΔIOKΛHTIANOC</b> = Diocletianus</p><p><b>CEB</b>(ACTOC) = Augustus</p><p><br /></p><p>A tip that sometimes helps is to look for the tiny o in Diocletian.&nbsp; It can be the third letter on short legend coins or in the middle on top of the head on the longer legend coins.&nbsp; You don&#039;t have to read the whole legend to recognize Diocletian.&nbsp; If the coin is small and dumpy and has a tiny o that could be more of a dot, consider Diocletian.&nbsp; This is year nine.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1018313[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The first step in IDing Alexandrians comes before you look at legends.&nbsp; Tetradrachms of the early part of the third century are closer to the size of a stack of quarters while the end (Diocletian and friends) are more like a stack of dimes.&nbsp; Pay attention to coins you see in hand and apply the size clues that help you know what legends are reasonable to consider.&nbsp; This is a problem for those of us whose only references are online.&nbsp; That is why I love coin shows where you can see and handle coins with such clues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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