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ID number: BIRBI-R2583 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Maximian; Thessalonica Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Roman Date made: 300-301 Metal: Silver and base metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 9.48 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Haines 352. Presented by Earle Fox, 1921. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximian, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, and wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring liquor from patera in r. and cornucopia in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C.M H.MHXIMIHNVS P F HVG (Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Maximian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: GHNIO POPV-L-I ROMHNI (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: •TSB•
Bibliography: RIC VI 21B
Notes: Traces of silvering. According to RIC, the •TSB• in the exergue on the reverse are mintmarks indicating Thessalonica.
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