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ID number: BIRBI-R2702 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey; Webb, Percy H. Maker: Maximinus Daia; Alexandria Denomination: Follis Place made: Africa: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria Culture: Roman Date made: 308-310 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.45 Weight (g): 7.68 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 1021. Presented by Mr Percy H. Webb, 1928. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximinus, wearing laurel wreath, with parallel ties and rounded truncation (γ), 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 bottom l., bottom r. and mid r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C CHL VHL MHXIMINVS P F AVC (Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: GENIO IMP-ER∆ΓORIS (The Genius of the Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: ∆LΣ
Bibliography: RIC VI 107C
Notes: According to RIC, the [A]L[E] in the exergue of the reverse and K P ∆ (anticlockwise) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.
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