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ID number: BIRBI-R2696 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Maximinus Daia; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Roman Date made: 312 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.41 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 2931. Rev. Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 1953. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximinus, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., holding head of Sol, radiate, to r. and cornucopia in l.; * E in field, to l. and r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C GHL VAL MHXIMINVS P F AVG (Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: GENIO HVGVSTI (The Genius of the Emperor). In Exergue: ANT
Bibliography: RIC VI 164B
Notes: According to RIC, the ANT in the exergue of the reverse and * E in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Antioch.
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