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ID number: BIRBI-R1536 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Maximinus Thrax; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: AD 235-236 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.20 Weight (g): 19.91 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 1437. W. S. Lincoln, 1932. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximinus Thrax, wearing laurel wreath and short-beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Salus, draped, seated facing l., feeding out of patera in r. snake coiled round altar.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP MAXIMINvS PIVS AVG (Imperator Maximinus Pius Augustus). Reverse: SALVS AVGVSTI (To the Health of the Emperors). In Exergue: S C (Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC IV 64
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