6-333

RIC VI, SISCIA [after 27b], GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED REVERSE LEGEND

  

OBVERSE

MAXIMIA-NVSNOBC [MAXIMIANVS NOB C]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

MARTI-VICTOR [MARTI VICTOR]; Mars stg. l., r. holding Victory, l. leaning on spear. SIS in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED REVERSE LEGEND. RIC lists this type only with longer rev. legend MARTI VICTORI (p. 458). Note that the absence of "I" could be a result of engraver's slip. General note about this issue from p. 440: "Marti Victori, for both Caesar's, is an innovation, though in the general tradition of the earlier types. [...] Date, c. (?) 303-5". Coin should be listed after SISCIA 27b.

NOTES

Aureus. Weight 5.49 g; diameter 20 mm. Sold on NUMISMATIK LANZ auction in November 2002 for $6,350. See also bigger picture from Numismatische Bilddatenbank Eichstätt.


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski