6-3208

RIC VI, SISCIA [before 18a], MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS, UNLISTED FOR RULER [FORGERY]

  

OBVERSE

MAXIMIANVS-AVGVSTVS [MAXIMIANVS AVGVSTVS]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

PRINCIPIIV-V-ENTVTIS [PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS]; Prince stg. r. in military dress, r. holding transverse spear, l. globe. *SIS in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED FOR RULER. RIC lists this issue only for Caesars: Constantius and Galerius (p. 457). Formally this coin may be regarded as rather impossible hybrid: obverse RIC V/2 CYZICUS 601 with reverse RIC VI SISCIA 18b. In fact, however, it is a modern forgery.

NOTES

Aureus. From FORVM ANCIENT COINS; posted as fake by Din X.


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski