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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R2693
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Maximinus Daia; Nikomedia
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Izmit
Culture:  Roman
Date made:  310-311
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.30
Weight (g):  6.41
Axis (degrees):  45.00
Provenance:  Haines 3865. A. H. Baldwin, 1962.
BIRBI-R2693.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Head of Maximinus, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring from patera in r. and holding cornucopia in l.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP C CHL VHL MHXIMINVS P F HVC (Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO HV-CVSTI CMH[ligatured] (The Genius of the Emperor). In Exergue: SMNE

Bibliography:  RIC VI 66C

Notes:  According to RIC, the SMNE in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Thessalonica. The ligatured mark at the end of the reverse legend is arguably a value mark: Hendy 'Studies' 1985, 463.

3 Related People

Nikomedia
Roman; Byzantine


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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Maximinus Daia
Roman
c.270
313
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