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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-R2660 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Galerius; Alexandria Denomination: Follis Place made: Africa: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria Culture: Roman Date made: 308-310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 6.54 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 2928. Rev. Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 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 CAL VAL MHXIMIHNVS P F HVC (Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: GENIO IMP-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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3 Related People | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Alexandria | |
| Galerius Roman 311 | |
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