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ID number: BIRBI-R2697 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey; Crete Hoard Maker: Maximinus Daia; Antioch Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Antioch Culture: Roman Date made: 312 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.81 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 184. Presented by Earle Fox Bequest, 1921 - found in hoard in Crete. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximinus, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Sol, draped and cloaked, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding head of Serapis, wearing modius, in l.; ΓI and * in field, to l. and r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C GAL VHL MAXIMINVS P F AVG (Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLL IN-VICTO (The Invincible Sol). In Exergue: ΛNT
Bibliography: RIC VI 167B
Notes: According to RIC, the [A]NT in the exergue of the reverse and ΓI * in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Antioch. Mintmark Γ appears to be cut above Δ.
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