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Object Description

Artist

Unidentified Artist, Roman

Culture

Roman, Mediterranean

Nationality

Italian

Title/Object Name

Ob: I(M)P(erator) C(aius) GAL(erius) VAL(erius) MAXIMINVS P(ius) F(elix) AVG(ustus) [Imperator Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus Pious Fortunate Augustus] | Re: GENIO EX-ERCITVS [Guardian spirit of the army]

Dates

310 - 311 CE

4th Century CE

Medium

Bronze

Follis

Dimensions

Diameter, 0.8937 In, 2.27 Cm

Weight, 0.0143 Pounds, 6.5 Grams

Description

Ob: Laureate head right. Re: Genius standing left by altar, modius on head, chlamys over left shoulder, with patera and cornucopia, crescent in left field, H in right field, in exergue ANT.

Credit Line

Transfer from Classics Department to CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder

Notes

Collection History: Donated by Dr. Wilson A. Farnsworth in 1897.

Rome. Galerius.

Object ID

2014.06.351

Collection

Coin

Classics Collection

Bibliography

RIC VI, 638, no. 147c

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