LOT 3229
Maximinus II, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 305-308.
Serdica mint; struck AD 307-308. GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB C, laureate head to right / GENIO CAESARIS, Genius, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, standing to left, holding patera from which liquid flows, and cornucopia; star in left field, Δ(?) in right field; •SM•SD• in exergue. Cf. RIC VI 37. Near Very Fine.(6.91gr, 24mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK market before 2000.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
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From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
With an impression of the obverse on one side, and the reverse on the other, of the coin being counterfeited this ancient forger's casting mould would have been stacked with others, the molten metal being poured from above and allowed to cool.
