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ID number: BIRBI-R2706 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: 311-312 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 7.14 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 1022. Presented by Mr Percy H. Webb, 1928. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Maximinus, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked, wearing modius, standing facing l., pouring from patera in r. and holding cornucopia in l.; ᴗ K X Γ in field, to top l., bottom l., bottom r. and mid r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C GALFR VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVC (Imperial Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: BONO CENIO P…I IMPERATORIS (To the Good Genius of the Pius Emperor as Commander in Chief). In Exergue: ΛLE
Bibliography: RIC VI 144B
Notes: According to RIC, the ALE in the exergue of the reverse and ᴗ K X Γ (anticlockwise) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.
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