There are nine types of "civic coinage" attributed to Maximinus II, c. 312 AD. Here is one of the common types: To learn a bit more about them, visit my educational page: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/MaximinusII/ The rest of my educational pages are listed here: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ Show us your coins from this series!
@Valentinian - Your educational page on Maximinius II is very nice. I'll be spending time there. I have something I could post on this thread, but it's not photographed and, well..(yawn) Since I'm feeling too lazy to take photographs, perhaps I'll laze around with your pages for a spell. Thanks for posting them.
Nice one @Valentinian. I have three examples of this issue MAXIMINUS II DAIA Quarter-Nummus OBVERSE: IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter seated left holding globe & sceptre REVERSE: VICTORIA AVGG, Victory advancing left with wreath & palm, officina letter to right, ANT in ex. Struck at Antioch, 310-313 AD 1.2g, 15mm Vagi 2955 MAXIMINUS II DAIA Quarter-Nummus OBVERSE: GENIO ANTIOCHENI, Tyche of Antioch seated facing on rocks, turreted and veiled, stalks of grain in right, river-god Orontes swimming below REVERSE: APOLLONI SANCTO, Apollo standing left, patera in right, lyre in left. A in right field, mintmark SMA Struck at Antioch, 312 AD 1.2g, 13mm Van Heesch 3, A MAXIMINUS II DAIA Quarter-Nummus OBVERSE: GENIO ANTIOCHENI, Tyche of Antioch seated facing on rocks, turreted and veiled, stalks of grain in right, river-god Orontes swimming below REVERSE: APOLLONI SANCTO, Apollo standing left, patera in right, lyre in left. S in right field, mintmark SMA Struck at Antioch, 312 AD 1.2g, 13mm Van Heesch 3, A
Not quite. I need E with Jupiter and I with Apollo but am not inclined to pay the price I have seen them offered. Good! I don't need competition. Could I interest you in collecting NCLT from countries you can't find on a map or other things people who don't like ancients buy? I like it when people don't like what I collect! It keeps prices down. My best: This aVF one shows detail in Apollo's dress; I really want to see one better. Few of these are detailed enough to grade over fine. This one was $6 from a Baltimore show 15 years ago when no one wanted them because they are not in RIC. The more common rarity is the reversed mintmark AMS for SMA. Less common (I have not seen another) is misspelled SANSTO: The other common type is Jupiter/Victory with ANT mintmark. There are several other types but all are rare to very rare. I only have one and it is not too nice. Alexandria mint with Serapis and Nilus:
That is an excellent example of a rarity, far excelling mine on my page. In his 1993 article van Heesch knew of only 4.
Here's how I described these coins in my notes. Corrections welcome: Thanks to the Christian persecutions organized by Emperors Diocletian, Galerius, and Maximinus Daia, the tensions between pagan and Christian in the early fourth century were quite high indeed. Christians, according to many Romans, were simply bad citizens. They refused to make the token offerings to the “genius” or protective spirit of the Roman emperor. They did not attend the Roman games and thus refused to participate in the larger life of the community. And by not honoring the gods of the Romans, Christians threatened to bring down divine wrath upon the more observant citizens of the empire. Thus it is that in 311 A.D., “representatives from Nicomedia presented themselves before Maximinus, bringing images of their gods and request[ing] that Christians not be allowed to live in their city. Late in 311, an embassy from Antioch, led by their curator Theotecnus, also requested permission to banish Christians from their city and its territory. Other cities followed with the same request” (Forum Ancient Coins). Maximinus Daia acceded to their demands, and it is believed that these two dime-sized civic coins were struck in Antioch with his approval; these would be among the last recognizably pagan coin types of the Roman Empire. One coin depicts the “Genius of Antioch”–Tyche of Antioch seated facing on rocks, turreted and veiled, with stalks of grain in right; the upper body of river-god Orontes is below, standing facing in waist deep water, arms outstretched. The reverse shows APOLLONI SANCTO; Apollo standing left holding patera and lyre. The other coin depicts “Jove the Preserver”; Jupiter seated left, globe in right, long scepter vertical behind in left. The reverse legend reads VICTOR-IA AVGG; Victory left, wreath in extended right, palm frond in left, Ɛ in right field. However, both politically and theologically, Maximinus seems to have backed the wrong horse. His forces were defeated by Constantine’s ally Licinius, and in 313 A.D. he died at the age of 43, either from illness or suicide.
I wish that I could show you one better. As is, I was pretty excited about this lil snackeroo that I picked up to lessen the mental blow of shipping from Europe from the last HOHN auction where I got my https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-in-a-million-girl.331820/ coin from as well. I was very pleased with the Sandy "patina" but more specifically, some of the detail on the reverse (ie, Apollo's lyre). Here's mine (my pics vs theirs): MaximinusDaia 305 / 310-313 Follis 312, Antioch 1.75 g. Pseudoautonomous coinage of Antiochia ad Orontem. Statue of the city deity Antioch on river god Orontes, GENIO ANTIOCHENI / Apollo stands with Lyra to the left, APPOLONI SANCTO, SMA. RIC - Kampmann - Belageste Have you had any luck finishing out the set Doug?
I'm already spread too thin to really attempt a set, but I do have the one Nothing special, but it was inexpensive. Who can resist one of the last Pagan coins?
I still lack one but have stopped buying ugly coins and the couple I have seen have been rough. My set is just officinae of the two common types. The 'rel' set would be all the other rare types. In this thread David@PCC and I each showed one. They are not sold all that frequently.
