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ID number: BIRBI-R2661 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Galerius; Alexandria Denomination: Follis Place made: Africa: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria Culture: Roman Date made: 308-310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.45 Weight (g): 7.45 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Whitting 4174. Ex Sydenham, A. H. Baldwin, October 1953. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Galerius, wearing laurel wreath, with parallel ties and rounded truncation (γ), and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring from patera in r. and cornucopia in l.; K P E in field, to l., to bottom r. and mid r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C GHL VHL MHXIVIUNVS P F HVC (Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CAHIO IMI-ERHTORIS (The Genius of the Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: HLE
Bibliography: RIC VI 107A
Notes: According to RIC, the [A]LE in the exergue of the reverse and the K P E (anticlockwise) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.
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