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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 25080344, member: 26430&quot;]Great coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my only Abdication Follis (reverse legend QVIES AVG, Quies being the personification of retirement/voluntary abdication, apparently, since there had to be a personification/deity for everything!). </p><p><br /></p><p>This one for Maximian&#039;s <i>second</i> retirement! He tried to come back a third time. Either Constantine killed him or drove him to suicide. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a JSTOR (free w/ email registration), I recommend:</p><ul> <li>E. A. Sydenham. 1934 &quot;The Vicissitudes of Maximian after his Abdication,&quot; <i>Numismatic Chronicle </i>14 (55): pp. 141-167. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42660879" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42660879" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/42660879</a></li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>I just showed it recently, but what&#039;s one more?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/maximian-quies-follis-ex-sydenham-glendining-1948-large-jpg.1599929/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Maximianus Herculius (second reign 306-308)</b> AE Follis (26mm, 6.16g). Treviri, after Nov. 308 CE.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv</b>: MAXIMIANVS PF AVG. Laureate and cuirassed bust right.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev</b>: QVIES AVG / S–A / PTR. Quies standing facing, head left, holding branch in her right hand and sceptre in her left.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref:</b> RIC VI, p. 218, 788; C 494; Sear IV, p. 176, 13417; Vagi 2770; <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.tri.788" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.tri.788" rel="nofollow">OCRE</a> (RIC 788, 4 specs., 2 ill.).</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov</b>: Reportedly ex-E. A. Sydenham (1873-1948) Collection (<a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofgreek00glen_22/page/104/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofgreek00glen_22/page/104/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Glendining &amp; Co, 24 Nov 1948</a>, Lot 826 part, no. 5 of 32). Ex-Naville Numismatics 67 (1 Aug 2021), Lot 554.</font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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