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ID number: BIRBI-R2574 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Maximian; Ticinum Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Lombardy, Pavia Culture: Roman Date made: 307-308 Metal: Silver and base metal Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 6.37 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2907. Rev. Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 1953. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximian, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Roma, draped and helmeted, seated frontally with head facing l., in a hexastyle temple, holding globe in r. and sceptre in l.; knobs as acroteria, pediment empty.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C MHXIMIHNVS P F AVC (Imperator Caesar Maximian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CONSERV VRB SVHE (Defender of His City). In Exergue: ST
Bibliography: RIC VI 92
Notes: Traces of silvering. According to RIC, the ST in the exergue on the reverse are mintmarks indicating Ticinum.
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