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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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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Webb, Percy H.
British
1856
04 March 1937
Maximinus Daia
Roman
c.270
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