RIC VI, AQUILEIA [after 46b], GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, REVERSE LEGEND VARIETY

OBVERSE	MAXIMIA-NVSPFAVG [MAXIMIANVS P F AVG]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	HERCVLIC-OMITIAVGGNOSTR [HERCVLI COMITI AVGG NOSTR]; Hercules stg. l., r. holding branch, l. club and lion's skin. AQ in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	REVERSE LEGEND VARIETY. Specimen similar to AQUILEIA 46b except for rev. legend break: C-O instead of legend unbroken. For gold issues different rev. legend break makes sometimes a separate entry in RIC (cf. RIC VI TREVERI 802 and 807). Listed in Depeyrot (p. 92, no. 6/9) with this rev. break. Could be listed in RIC after AQUILEIA 46b.

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Aureus. Weight 5.49 g. Sold on Bank Leu auction 18 (lot 387) in May 1977 for CHF 36,000 (attributed to Maximian Herculius); ex Leu Numismatik auction 91 (lot 670), May 2004 (attributed to Maximian Herculius); sold on The New York Sale XXXII (lot 52) in January 2014 for USD 16,000.