Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R2699 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey; Webb, Percy H. Maker: Maximinus Daia; Galerius; Alexandria Denomination: Follis Place made: Africa: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria Culture: Roman Date made: 308-310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 6.10 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 1020. Presented by Mr Percy Webb, 1928. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximinus, wearing laurel wreath, with parallel ties and pointed truncation (β), and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring from patera in r. and holding cornucopia in l.; K P E in field, to bottom l., bottom r. and mid r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB CAES (Galerius Valerius Maximinus, Noble Caesar). Reverse: CENIO GH-ESHRIS (The Genius of the Caesar). In Exergue: HLE
Bibliography: RIC VI 100A
Notes: According to RIC, the [A]LE in the exergue of the reverse and K P E (anticlockwise) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.
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