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ID number: BIRBI-R2685 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Maximinus Daia; Londinium Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: United Kingdom, London Culture: Roman Date made: 310-312 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.45 Weight (g): 4.32 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Haines 1019. Ex Sir Charles Oman Collection, 1949. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximinus, wearing laurel wreath and beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, covering l. shoulder and loins, wearing modius, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and cornucopia in l.; * in field, to r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP ΛΛAXIMIMVS P F ΛVC (Imperator Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENI… POP RᴖM (The Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: PLN
Bibliography: RIC VI 209B
Notes: According to RIC, the PLN in the exergue of the reverse and * in field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Londinium.
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