RIC VI, SERDICA 2b, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Γ

OBVERSE	MAXIMIA-NVSNOBC [MAXIMIANVS NOB C]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	VIRTVS-MILITVM [VIRTVS MILITVM]; Three-turreted campgate, open, without doors. •SM•SDΓ• in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED OFFICINA - Γ. RIC lists officinae A, B and Є (p. 491). General note from p. 486: "Struck from five officinae (though not all of these are now well evidenced) and at a weight of c. 3.3 gm., this was in the names of all four rulers: the reverse type was the late three-turreted camp-gate (open and without doors) which had already appeared at Thessalonica, with legend Virtus Militum. The coins are now of considerable rarity". Listed in Gautier Argent (294-312) (p. 451, no. 16). See also: SERDICA 2b, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Δ

NOTES

Argenteus. Weight 3.41 g. Ex Freeman & Sear, The Manhattan Sale III (lot 210), January 2012; sold on Hess Divo auction 327 (lot 147) in October 2014 for CHF 1,000. Other specimens: - sold on CNG auction 88 (lot 1419) in September 2011 for USD 1,000; weight 3.12 g; diameter 20 mm [click for picture].