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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 2944532, member: 83845&quot;]<p style="text-align: center"><font size="5"><span style="color: #808080"><b>Bonus Coin #2</b></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><b>Curtisimo&#039;s Rarest Coin of 2017</b></font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]717659[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Roman Empire</font></p><p><font size="3">Maximianus (AD 286-305)</font></p><p><font size="3">AS Quarter Follis, Siscia mint, struck ca. AD 305-306</font></p><p><font size="3">Dia.: 20 mm</font></p><p><font size="3">Wt.: 2.0 g</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: MAXIMIANVS AVG, laureate head of Maximianus right</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI, Genius standing holding patera and cornucopia </font></p><p><font size="3">Ref.: RIC VI 169b, rare R2</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>My comments:</b></font></p><p>I think rarity is an interesting quality in an ancient coin but I almost never target a coin for that specific reason.&nbsp; I bought this coin in a lot and was pleased to note that it was listed as R2 by RIC (meaning that there were only 11-25 examples in the collections examined).&nbsp; This coin would have been valued at 1/4 of the larger post reform folli of the tetrarchy period.&nbsp; I will need to do some additional research on the dating of this piece which seems to indicate it could have been a post abdication issue.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>Please feel free to post your rare coins from 2017!</b></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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