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head rayed, holds in left hand a cornucopia, and in right a wreath 

 or ring. This is an excellent specimen, and belongs Mr. Williams, 

 2nd Brass, A.D. 235 to 278. Plate II., No. 9. 



This Emperor appears to have been of the hero type, a man of 

 immense strength. His height exceeded eight feet, and his strengh 

 and appetite were in proportion. He consumed forty pounds 

 of flesh and seven gallons of wine in his daily meals ; but, as he 

 is not in any especial way mentioned in connection with Britain, 

 we pass him by. 



DV. MAXIMIANO . IVN . AVG. Bust to right, head 

 laureated. Rev., a figure standing looking to left, holds in left 

 hand a cornucopia, and in right a wreath, (geni)O . POP . 

 ROM. A very much worn coin of 2nd Brass, A.D. 286 to 309, 

 known as Galerius Maximianus. 



He was associated with Diocletian and Maximian in the 

 imperial government ; the latter, having fruitlessly endeavoured 

 to reduce Carausius to order in the usual way, patched up a 

 peace by r-ecognising him as the Roman Caesar in Britain. 

 About this time the name of Constantinus begins to appear, and 

 he was adopted by Maximian, and to more closely unite him to 

 the imperial families he desired him to put away his wife, Helena 

 — the mother of Constantine the Great — to make way for 

 Theodora, his step-daughter ; and to Constantinus was intrusted 

 the protection of Greece, Spain, and Britain. At this time the 

 Empire had four rulers, Diocletian being recognised by the other 

 three — Maximian, Constantinus, and Galerius — as the superior ; 

 indeed, if we admit Carausius, there were five, as he w^as certainly 

 vested with the imperial power for ten years in Britain. It was in 

 the calends of March, A.D. 292, that the three Ceesars were in- 

 stalled in their high ofifice, and immediately after Constantinus 

 hastened to get rid of the usurper Carausius, as has been already 

 related. About A.D. 305, the two Emperors, Diocletian and 

 Maximian, resigned the imperial power to their adopted sons, Gale- 

 rius and Constantinus. Diocletian died at his palace of Spalatro, in 

 313, and his adopted son, the Maximianus Galerius of our coin, died 



