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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3161456, member: 19463&quot;]Lets also remember that many of these emperors were never in the owns where the mint was located and some dies might have been made with word descriptions of the new man.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Below are Alexandrian tetradrachms of co emperors Maximianus and Diocletian both from year nine which means the one of Diocletian was one year before the one for Maximianus who did not become co emperor until Diocletian was in his second year.&nbsp; I do not see the portraits as easily confused.&nbsp; Maximianus had a bit heavier jaw.&nbsp; There most certainly are some dies that are better or more realistic than others and coins of this period are not the equal of those from preceding centuries but there was some effort being made.&nbsp; It would be interesting to see if one of our Alexandria specialist collectors could separate a hundred mixed coins of this period into piles for each of the two rulers with any accuracy without looking at legends.&nbsp; I know it would be possible to fool any of us buy selecting coins that were more than the average degree of confusing. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]811573[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]811575[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The portraits from different mints vary more than the difference between subjects. More different mints and the more dies needed in a fast paced, overworked environment would make this situation worse.&nbsp; However, we might even make the point that the same differences can be found in portraits of many earlier rulers.&nbsp; Exact matches are not always found.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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