Description: Obverse: Head of Maximinus, wearing laurel wreath, with parallel ties and pointed truncation (γ), 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 Δ in field, to top l., bottom l., bottom r. and mid r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C CHL VAL MHXIMINVS P F AVC (Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO IMPE-RATORIS (The Genius of the Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: ALE
Bibliography: RIC VI 121C
Notes: According to RIC, the ALE 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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