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ID number: BIRBI-R2653 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Galerius; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Roman Date made: 310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 6.58 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 2924. 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. over altar, to l., and cornucopia in l.; * B in field, to l. and r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IHP C GΔL VHL MAXΓHVIHVS P F AVG (Imperial Caesar Galerius Maximian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: GENIO IHP-ERATORIS (The Genius of the Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: ΛHT
Bibliography: RIC VI 133A
Notes: According to RIC, the [A]HT in the exergue of the reverse and the * B (anti-clockwise) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Antioch.
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