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RIC VI, LUGDUNUM [after 130b], GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED BUST TYPE (consular)

  

OBVERSE

MAXIMIANVSNOBCAES [MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES]; bust r., laur., in imperial mantle, r. holding eagle-tipped sceptre.

REVERSE

GENIOPOP-VLIROMANI [GENIO POPVLI ROMANI]; Genius stg. l., modius on head, naked but for chlamys over l. shoulder, r. holding patera, l. cornucopiae. Altar in left field, A in right field. PLC in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED BUST TYPE. Not attested for this issue. Similar to bust type Z (cf. LUGDUNUM 146b) but turned right instead of left. Not listed in Bastien Lyon (294-316) and Bastien Lyon - suppléments I-II. Coin should be listed after LUGDUNUM 130b.

NOTES

Weight 10.10 g; diameter 28 mm. From the Robert Bernobich Collection.

Other specimens:

- from the British Museum Collection (reg. no. 2022,4018.329); Rauceby hoard; weight 7.78 g; diameter 28 mm [click for picture].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski