6-881

RIC VI, LONDINIUM [after 36], GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED BUST TYPE

  

OBVERSE

MAXIMIANVSNOBCAES [MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES]; bust r., laur., dr., cuir., seen from rear.

REVERSE

GENIOPOPV-LIROMANI [GENIO POPVLI ROMANI]; Genius stg. l., modius on head, naked but for chlamys over l. shoulder, r. holding patera, l. cornucopiae.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED BUST TYPE. Not attested for Class III (p. 125). Listed in Cloke-Toone (3.01.035). Should be listed in RIC after LONDINIUM 36.

NOTES

Weight 10.90 g; diameter 27 mm. Coin sold on Boule Mail Bid Auction 107 (lot 368) in October 2015 for EUR 341.

Other specimens:

- from the British Museum Collection (reg. no. B.41); plate coin in Cloke-Toone; weight 12.735 g; diameter 28-29 mm [click for picture];

- from the Robert Bernobich Collection; weight 9.00 g; diameter 29 mm [click for picture];

- from VCoins (Gert Boersema Ancient Coins); weight 11.02 g; diameter 28 mm [click for picture];

- ex Dix Noonan Webb auction 158 (lot 1262); sold on CNG eAuction 516 (lot 560) in May 2022 for USD 130; weight 9.90 g; diameter 28 mm [click for picture];

- from eBay, November 2010; weight 13.42 g; diameter 27 mm [click for picture];

- from Mont-Saint-Sulpice Hoard (p. 56, no. 144; plate 11, no. 144); weight 9.21 g [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski