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ID number: BIRBI-R2657 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey; Webb, Percy H. 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): 6.04 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 1017. Presented by Mr Percy H. Webb, 1928. |

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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., pouring liquor from patera in r. and cornucopia in l.; K P A in field, to l., to bottom r. and mid r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP G GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG (Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: GENIO IMP-ERATORIS (The Genius of the Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: HLE
Bibliography: RIC VI 101A
Notes: According to RIC, the [A]LE in the exergue of the reverse and the K P A (anticlockwise) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.
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