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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.
BIRBI-R2702.jpg

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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