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RIC VI, SERDICA 39, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA A

  

OBVERSE

GALMAXIMIANVSPFAVG [GAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

GENIOPOPV-L-IROMANI [GENIO POPVLI ROMANI]; Genius stg. l., modius on head, naked but for chlamys over l. shoulder, r. holding patera (from which liquor flows), l. cornucopiae. Star in left field, A in right field. •SM•SD• in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED OFFICINA - A. RIC lists officinae B, Γ and Δ (p. 500). General note from p. 490: "The coins as a whole are scarce [...] All four officinae worked impartially for all three persons [Galerius Maximian, Maximinus, Galeria Valeria]. The weight suggests a date late in 307 or in 308 [...]".

NOTES

Diameter 26 mm. From Allegro, November 2010.

Other specimens:

- sold on eBay in June 2008 for USD 29.95; weight 6.4 g; diameter 26 mm [click for picture];

- sold on eBay in May 2014 for EUR 18.99; weight 5.9 g; diameter 25 mm [click for picture] [Thanks to the collaboration of Mariusz Graczyk].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski