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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Tetrarchy| > |Licinius I| > RL76690
Licinius I, 11 November 308 - 18 September 324 A.D.
|Licinius| |I|, |Licinius| |I,| |11| |November| |308| |-| |18| |September| |324| |A.D.|, On 30 April 313, Maximinus II, who had crossed the Bosporus with an army of 70,000 men, was defeated by Licinius at the Battle of Tzirallum. Maximinus fled, first to Nicomedia and afterward to Tarsus, where he died the following August. His death was variously ascribed "to despair, to poison, and to divine justice."
RL76690. Billon follis, RIC VII Ticinum 10 (R5) var. (2nd officina not listed), Cohen VII 163, SRCV IV 15292, Hunter V -, F, centered, encrustations, 2nd officina, Ticinum (Pavia, Italy) mint, weight 2.952g, maximum diameter 19.7mm, die axis 180o, 313 - 314 A.D.; obverse IMP LICINIVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right; reverse SOLI INVICTO COMITI (to the unconquered Sun, minister [of the Emperor]), Sol standing slightly left, radiate, nude but for chlamys over shoulders and left arm, raising right hand commanding the sun to rise, globe in left hand, star in left field, ST in exergue; very rare; SOLD











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