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RIC VI, AQUILEIA 114, MAXENTIUS, UNLISTED OFFICINA Γ

  

OBVERSE

IMPCMAXENTIVSPFAVG [IMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG]; bust r., laur., dr., cuir.

REVERSE

CONSERV-VRBSVAE [CONSERV VRB SVAE]; Roma seated l. on shield in tetrastyle temple, r. handing globe to Maxentius (in military dress, stg. r.), l. holding sceptre; seated captive between; Victories as acroteria; wolf and twins in pediment. AQΓ in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED OFFICINA - Γ. RIC lists officinae P and S (p. 325). Listed in Drost (p. 290, no. 37); all three officnae attested. Note also that AQUILEIA 113-114 and other varieties with the same rev. type in fact belong to Group IV.

NOTES

Weight 5.50 g. From: Andrea Stella, Aquileia tardoantica: moneta, storia ed economia, Edizioni Università di Trieste 2019, p. 219, no. 9 and p. 351, no. 1/21/9.

Other specimens:

- from Drost (plate 9, no. 37a/9); weight 5.49 g [click for picture];

- sold on Sternberg auction 23 (lot 787) in October 2000 for CHF 240; weight 6.21 g [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski