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ID number: BIRBI-R2656 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Galerius; Alexandria Denomination: Follis Place made: Africa: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria Culture: Roman Date made: 308-310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.40 Weight (g): 7.82 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 2927. Rev. Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 1953. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Galerius, wearing laurel wreath, with divergent ties and pointed truncation (α), and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and cornucopia in l.; K P Δ in field, to l., to bottom r. and mid r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP G GHL VAL MHXIMIHNVS P F AVC (Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO IMP-ERΛTORIS (The Genius of the Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: ΛLE
Bibliography: RIC VI 101A
Notes: According to RIC, the [A]LE in the exergue of the reverse and the K P Δ (anticlockwise) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.
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