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ID number:  BIRBI-R2746
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Licinius; Alexandria
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Africa: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  AD 308-310
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.40
Weight (g):  7.99
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Haines 1032. Ex R. G. Peckitt Collection, 1928.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Licinius, wearing laurel wreath, with parallel ties and pointed truncation (β), and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring from patera in r. and holding cornucopia in l.; K P S in field, to l., bottom r. and mid r. respectively.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP C VAL LIC LICIMIVS P F HVC (Imperator Caesar Valerius Licinianus Licinius Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO IMP-ERATORIS (The Genius of the Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: HLA

Bibliography:  RIC VI 105B

Notes:  According to RIC, the [A]L[E] in the exergue of the reverse and K P S (anticlockwise) are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.

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