RIC VI, HERACLEA 76, MAXIMINUS, UNLISTED ISSUE

OBVERSE	IMPCGALVALMAXIMINVSPFAVG [IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	GENIOA-VGVSTI [GENIO AVGVSTI]; Genius stg. l., modius on head, naked but for chlamys over l. shoulder, r. holding patera (from which liquor flows), l. cornucopiae; altar at feet to l. B in right field. SMHT in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED ISSUE. Similar to the issue struck by Maximinus after his capture of Heraclea (HERACLEA 76), except altar at feet to left instead of eagle with wreath in beek. General note from p. 528: "This issue falls into two sections, before and after Maximinus' capture of Heraclea. [...] In the second, Maximinus is seen to have introduced his own range of types, from which both Licinius and Constantine are excluded: Genio Augusti (scarce), Herculi Victori and Soli Invicto (both rare). Date, 313". However, in the footnote 3 on p. 542 Sutherland writes: "VG. [O. Voetter's Gerin Catalogue] Constantine 12 records this type with Constantine's obv. 3c [IMP C FL VAL CONSTANTINVS P F AVG]. It is not in Vienna and must be regarded as very doubtful". Now it is clear that this type exists with obverses of all three Augusti and probably was minted shortly before Maximinus' invasion. Coin should be listed before HERACLEA 76. See also: HERACLEA 76, LICINIUS, UNLISTED ISSUE and HERACLEA 76, CONSTANTINE, UNLISTED ISSUE.

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Coin sold on eBay in June 2006 for $137.50.