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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7793317, member: 110350"]Here's my one example, which I have been persuaded by David Kalina not to call a "persecution" follis, for the reasons set forth at the link cited below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous civic issue, reign of Maximinus II, AE quarter follis [?][Sear] or 1/12 nummus [?][McAlee], Antioch Mint (3rd Officina), ca. 311-312 AD. Obv. Tyche (city-goddess of Antioch) wearing mural crown, seated facing on rock, holding wheat or grain ears with right hand and, with left hand, holding a two-handled basket (filled with wheat or grain ears[?]) resting on ground to right, river god Orontes swimming below, GENIO ANTIOCHINI / Rev. Apollo standing left, pouring libation from patera held in right hand, and holding lyre in raised left hand, Γ [gamma, signifying 3rd Officina] in right field, APOLLONI SANCTO around; in exergue, SMA [<i>meaning Sigmata Moneta Antioch (money struck at Antioch) or Sacra Moneta Antioch</i>]. [Not in RIC; see <a href="http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/6ant_civ_4v.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/6ant_civ_4v.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/6ant_civ_4v.html</a>.] Sear RCV IV 14927 (ill); Vagi 2954; McAlee 170; Van Heesch Type 3 [Van Heesch, J. "The last civic coinages and the religious policy of Maximinus Daza (AD 312)" in <i>Numismatic Chronicle</i> (1993), pp. 63-75 & Pl. 11]; <i>ERIC II</i>, “Anonymous Religious Coinage of the Fourth Century,” pp. 1198-1199, No. 2. 16 mm., 1.35 g. [<i>Struck either (1) to promote propaganda against Christians and aid in their persecution (and thus traditionally denominated the “Persecution issue”; or (2) as proposed by David Kalina, for use in festivals, including the Festival of Apollo at Daphne, held in conjunction with the Olympics in Antioch in 312 AD. See Kalina, David, “Anonymous Civic Coinage,” Series 1, at <a href="http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php" rel="nofollow">http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php</a></i>.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1337857[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7793317, member: 110350"]Here's my one example, which I have been persuaded by David Kalina not to call a "persecution" follis, for the reasons set forth at the link cited below. Anonymous civic issue, reign of Maximinus II, AE quarter follis [?][Sear] or 1/12 nummus [?][McAlee], Antioch Mint (3rd Officina), ca. 311-312 AD. Obv. Tyche (city-goddess of Antioch) wearing mural crown, seated facing on rock, holding wheat or grain ears with right hand and, with left hand, holding a two-handled basket (filled with wheat or grain ears[?]) resting on ground to right, river god Orontes swimming below, GENIO ANTIOCHINI / Rev. Apollo standing left, pouring libation from patera held in right hand, and holding lyre in raised left hand, Γ [gamma, signifying 3rd Officina] in right field, APOLLONI SANCTO around; in exergue, SMA [[I]meaning Sigmata Moneta Antioch (money struck at Antioch) or Sacra Moneta Antioch[/I]]. [Not in RIC; see [URL]http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/6ant_civ_4v.html[/URL].] Sear RCV IV 14927 (ill); Vagi 2954; McAlee 170; Van Heesch Type 3 [Van Heesch, J. "The last civic coinages and the religious policy of Maximinus Daza (AD 312)" in [I]Numismatic Chronicle[/I] (1993), pp. 63-75 & Pl. 11]; [I]ERIC II[/I], “Anonymous Religious Coinage of the Fourth Century,” pp. 1198-1199, No. 2. 16 mm., 1.35 g. [[I]Struck either (1) to promote propaganda against Christians and aid in their persecution (and thus traditionally denominated the “Persecution issue”; or (2) as proposed by David Kalina, for use in festivals, including the Festival of Apollo at Daphne, held in conjunction with the Olympics in Antioch in 312 AD. See Kalina, David, “Anonymous Civic Coinage,” Series 1, at [URL]http://allcoinage.com/anonymous_civic.php[/URL][/I].] [ATTACH=full]1337857[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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