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RIC VI, SISCIA 54b, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, [CORRECTION]

  

OBVERSE

MAXIMIA-NVSNOBC [MAXIMIANVS NOB C]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

PROVIDEN-TIAAVGG [PROVIDENTIA AVGG]; the four princes sacrificing over tripod before archway in seven-turreted enclosure. *SIS in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

[CORRECTION]. RIC cites this very specimen (Ox. illustrated on plate 9 = Glen. 10.10.1951, 65) but describes enclousure on rev. as six-turreted. Should be seven-turreted. Listed with this correction in Gautier Argent (294-312) (p. 428, no. 120).

See also:
SISCIA 54a, CONSTANTIUS, [CORRECTION]

NOTES

Argenteus. Weight 3.08 g; diameter 19.4 mm. From Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology; The Heberden Coin Room (ID: HCR86167) [Thanks to the collaboration of Dr Marcus Spencer-Brown]. Shown in Gautier Argent (294-312) (plate 47, no. 120a).


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski