Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R2710 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: 312-313 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 4.03 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 1023. 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., holding head of Serapis, wearing modius, in r. and cornucopia in l.; branch at feet, to l., and * N B in field, to top l., mid l. and mid r. respectively.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP G GAL VAL MΛXIMINVS P F AVC (Imperial Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO AVCVSTI• (The Genius of the Emperor). In Exergue: □LE
Bibliography: RIC VI 160B
Notes: According to RIC, the [A]LE in the exergue of the reverse and * N B (anticlockwise) in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officinae) indicating Alexandria.
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