Apollini Sancto/Genio Antiochini, can't recall ID #

[Mayadigger]

Ave!

Doh! AE 16mm

Time of Diocletian City Comm of Antioch, Apollo/Tyche and River God, etc, etc...

I just cannot recall any attribution # for this one, not even if it's in RIC....again.

Help me out, please!

Thanks,

Kevin

[Akropolis]

Doug Smith wrote a FORVM entry on this a year ot two ago. He wrote that it was excluded from RIC for a reason I don't recall. Perhaps Doug can re-educate us.
Anyway, there is a Wildwinds example that ID's it as:
"Antioch Vagi 2954. Anonymous AE14mm Quarter-Nummus "Pagan Commemorative", struck under Maxininus II Daia. 310-313 AD. GENIO ANTIOCHINI, Tyche of Antioch enthroned facing, river god swimming at her feet / APOLLONI SANCTO, Apollo standing left holding patera & lyre, SMA in ex. Cohen 1 [Julian II], van Heesch 92."
PeteB

[Mayadigger]

Ave!

Thanks Pete!

You're a gem!

Best,

Kevin

[Akropolis]

I have a vague rcollection that the reason the coin series is not in RIC is that, initially, the consensus of opinion was that they were struck under Julian II, so the writers of the volume for Maximinus II finished and published it. The volume for Julian II was still incomplete. Then the consensus changed to Maximinus II, so they were excluded from the Julian II volume. Ergo, not in RIC.
I think.
PeteB

[*Alex]

Hi Kevin,

This coin, often called a quarter nummus or twelfth follis, the exact denomination being uncertain, is assigned to the time of the great persecution of Christians under Galerius and Maximinus II.

I am told that the obverse of the coin shows the famous Tyche of Antioch which was made by Eutychides of Sikyon in the second half of the 4th century B.C. The reverse possibly represents the statue of Apollo of Antioch which was made my Bryaxis around 400-350 B.C.

Alex.