Hello All!
I
had thought that my previous coin would be the last for this year, but this coin popped up and I just couldn't let it pass.
Maximus of
Spain, Usurper 409-411 A.D.
Silver
Siliqua, 14 mm, 1.36 g, 11 h, Barcelona, R3.
OBV: D N MAXIM-VS
P F AVG Pearl-diademed, draped and
cuirassed bust of
Maximus to right.
REV: [
VICT]ORI[A] AAVGGG / SMBA
Roma seated left on
cuirass, holding
Victory on globe in her right hand and inverted spear in her left.
RIC 1601.
Very
rare, a key
rarity in the late
Roman series. Struck on a slightly short
flan as usual and with some areas of weakness, otherwise,
very fine, VF, cabinet tone, extremely
rare.
Ex:
Leu Numismatik,
Auction 20, Lot 2836, July 18, 2022;
Heritage Europe (formerly MPO
Auctions),
Auction 66, Lot 4521, November 16, 2020;
Collection of Jeroen van der Meulen;
Stack's Bowers January 2015 NYINC
Auction, 9 January 2015, 284;
Gorny & Mosch 215, 14 October 2013, 617;
Ars Classica,
Auction ?, Lot ?, Date ?
According to Philip
Grierson (
DOCLR, p. 219), there are only about twenty known coins of
Maximus.
