Maximian Or Galerius?

OK - so this wont be of interest to most people but having done the work I may as well post it as it could help someone in the future. I struggle to understand and remember things if I cant visualise them, if I'd been born in the 90s no doubt this would have a name and I'd have pills for it but I wasn't, I'm just 'a bit slow'.

All protaganist legend variations of the GENIO POPVLI ROMANI type Follis during the 1st Tetrarchy (293-305). Dates of know issues in (brackets)



The areas they controlled - not important for my point but a nice map


The 2nd Tetrarchy and beyond (305 Onwards) after Maximian retires (briefly, then returns) and Galerius becomes Augustus in the East. I've not included the other protaganists as they are unimportant as far as the Maximian / Galerius clashes are concerned.


The legend clashes are shown in orange in the two tables and it is these coins that are probably the most mis-attributed of all of the approx 4000 Genio Pop issues. The coins farthest from 305 in date are the easiest to attribute style wise. As Doug states above it gets progressively harder as we get closer to the 305 cross over where the titulature changes. One piece of advice I would give is don't attempt to attribute from pictures on sites you don't fully trust as I have found more often than not they are wrong or inaccurate.

The best two sites I'm aware of - certainly for the London issues:

http://jp29.org/plnhome.htm
http://www.numisology.com/index.htm

Great work Ian! Wonderful depictions! Now you are going to have to read every page of my websites ..........

The Britannic Coinage of Constantius c. 296-305

Roman Coins of the London Mint: 296-325 AD

.......... in order to become very familiar with them (you may want to change or update some information) because I intend to give you all the source code and images before I "kick the bucket" so that the research into this very complex and little understood area of Roman Imperial coin production can continue. Hopefully you will re-write the pages in your own style in order to perpetuate that research.

James

Cheers guys, glad you found it interesting - I'll do my best James!

I now finally, fully understand this small section - I suppose its time to pick the next bit to chip away at

For those who were interested here is the final version with all 9 Issuers.



Hopefully no mistakes although I will be changing the position of some of the protagonists when I get the chance.

Working on it now mate - need to tinker with the host site a bit