RIC VI, LUGDUNUM [before 182], MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS, UNLISTED ISSUE [VIRTVS MILITVM]

OBVERSE	MAXIMI-ANVSPFAVG [MAXIMIANVS P F AVG]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	VIRTVS-MILITVM [VIRTVS MILITVM]; four-turreted gateway, with doors thrown open; crescent over doors. PLC in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED ISSUE. RIC does not list any silver issue from Lugdunum for this period (p. 254). Listed in Bastien Lyon - supplément I (p. 45, no. 452α; this coin). Listed also in: Georges Gautier, "Les argentei émis à Trèves et à Lyon entre juillet et décembre 307 apr. J.-C. : particularités et énigmes", Revue numismatique 2014, pp. 317-339. Gautier describes this type as: "Donativum du 25 juillet 307 ou de la fin décembre de la même année" (p. 328). The former date (or even earlier Constantine's marriage to Fausta, daughter of Maximian Herculius) is more probable. Listed in Gautier Argent (294-312) (p. 160, no. 4). Coin should be listed in RIC before LUGDUNUM 182.

NOTES

Argenteus. Weight 2.96 g. From Gautier's paper, p. 328, no. 16 and plate 7, no. 16a (Madrid).