RIC VI, LONDINIUM 14b, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, BUST TYPE VARIETY

OBVERSE	CVALMAXIMIANVSNOBC [C VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB C]; bust r., laur., elaborate consular cuir.
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	BUST TYPE VARIETY. Although this bust type is treated as cuirassed, it differs significantly from regular cuirassed bust (see another example of LONDINIUM 14b; BM B.8, 9.295 g). Cloke-Toone calls these eleborated cuirasses with palm leaf decoration as consular cuirasses (p. 32), but the meaning of this variant remains unknown. Was it really meant to be a variation of the consular bust or 'consular' elements were merely used as a decorative motifs.

NOTES

Weight 8.49 g; diameter 28 mm. Rauceby hoard. From Instagram (londinium_collection). Other specimens: - Sully Hoard II (B); from the collection of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales (no. 2009.24H/2388); weight 10.39 g [click for picture]; - from the Münzkabinett of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Collection (object no. RÖ 24799); weight 8.76 g; diameter 24-28 mm [click for picture]; - from the British Museum Collection (reg. no. 1927,0616.77); weight 9.428 g [click for picture].