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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-R2648 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Galerius; Nikomedia Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Izmit Culture: Roman Date made: 308-310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.85 Weight (g): 7.02 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2939. Rev. Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 1953. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Galerius, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring liquor from patera in r. and cornucopia in l. Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C CHL VHL MHXIMIHNVS P F HVC (Imperator Caeser Galerius Valerius Maximian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO HV-CVSTI CMH[ligatured] (The Genius of the Emperor, ). In Exergue: SNNA Bibliography: RIC VI 54A Notes: According to RIC, the S[N]NA in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Nikomedia. The ligatured mark at the end of the reverse legend is arguably a value mark: Hendy 'Studies' 1985, 463. |
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| Galerius Roman 311 | |
| Nikomedia Roman; Byzantine | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
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