RIC VI, NICOMEDIA 63, MAXIMINUS, UNLISTED OBVERSE AND REVERSE LEGEND

OBVERSE	MAXIMINVS-AVGVSTVS [MAXIMINVS AVGVSTVS]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	IOVICONS-ERVATORINK [IOVI CONSERVATORI NK]; Jupiter stg. facing, head l., chlamys hanging behind, r. holding thunderbolt, l. leaning on sceptre. SMN in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED OBVERSE AND REVERSE LEGEND. RIC lists only type with obverse legend MAXIMINVS P F AVG and reverse legend IOVI CONSERVATORI (p. 563). General note about this issue from p. 549: "GOLD. Unchanged in weight at nearly 5.4 gm., this is known for Maximinus only, in two varieties, both rare, showing him as P F Aug; [...] the other, with normal obverse and Iovi Conservatori reverse, records the formal adhesion of the new Augustus to Jovian line". The obverse legend MAXIMINVS AVGVSTVS is very rare and known only from HERACLEA 44b. Monogram NK at the end of the reverse legend is to be found on earlier gold coinage from Nicomedia (i.e. NICOMEDIA 33). Calicó 5015a. Coin should be listed before NICOMEDIA 63.

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Aureus, weight 5.13 g. Coin sold on eBay in May 2006 for $5000.