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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-R2572 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Maximian; Ticinum Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Lombardy, Pavia Culture: Roman Date made: 306 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 10.13 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Whitting 4605. Ex Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, November 1963. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximian, wearing laurel wreath and beard, wearing imperial mantle and holding olive-branch in r. and mappa in l., facing r. Reverse: Providentia, draped, standing facing r., extending r. to Quies, draped, standing facing l., holding branch in r. and leaning on sceptre with l.; • in field, to r., and a dot between the two figures. Inscriptions: Obverse: D B MAXIMIANO BAEATISSIMO SEN …VC (Our Lord Maximian, Most Blessed, Senior Augustus). Reverse: PBOVIDENTIH DEOPVM GVIES BVCC (The Foresight of the Gods, Retirement of the Emperors). In Exergue: QT Bibliography: RIC VI 67B Notes: According to RIC, the QT in the exergue on the reverse and • in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Ticinum. As opposed to the RIC type, this coin holds a variation on the mintmark in the field of the reverse (no A). |
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Ticinum | |
| Maximian Roman 310 | |
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