RIC VI, LUGDUNUM [before 1], GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED ISSUE [PRIMV AVSP]

OBVERSE	MAXIMI-ANVSNC [MAXIMIANVS N C]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	PRIMV-AVSP [PRIMV AVSP]; infant Hercules kneeling facing, head l., strangling two serpents.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED ISSUE. Not attested in RIC. Listed in Bastien Lyon - supplément I (p. 33, no. 590β as a part of pre-reform coinage from Lugdunum (see also: Georges Gautier, "Un quinaire de bronze de Galère César frappé à Lyon et conservé à Vienne (Autriche)", BSFN 1988, no. 3, p. 330-333). Listed in King as a quinarius from Lugdunum (p. 408, no. 30). Also listed in Zschucke BTP (p. 50, no. 2.8) as a fraction from Trier minted in 297. Could be listed in RIC before LUGDUNUM 1.

NOTES

Fraction. Weight 1.73 g. Coin sold on Stack's October 2010 Coin Galleries (lot 235) for USD 460. Other specimens: - from the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Collection (reg. no. 18228406); weight 1.08 g; diameter 14 mm [click for picture].