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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 3574880, member: 87404&quot;]I had regularly been picking up coins from this old collection, all of which were Roman Egypt, except this one, and I couldn&#039;t pass it up.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20190425_123308809.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Maximianus, First Reign 286-305 AD</b></p><p><b>AE Antoninianus, Struck 293 AD, Antioch Mint</b></p><p><b>Obverse</b>: IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, bust of Maximian, radiate, cuirassed, right.</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: CONCORDIA MILITVM, Maximian, draped, cuirassed, standing right, holding sceptre in right hand and receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter; Jupiter, standing left, holding scepter; ЄΔ below; •XXI in exergue.</p><p><b>References</b>: RIC V 621, Cohen 54</p><p><b>Size</b>: 21.8mm, 3.4g</p><p><b>Ex</b>: <i>The Reverend Willis McGill Collection</i> (McGill was an American missionary stationed in Egypt, who started collecting there during World War I)</p><p><b>Notes</b>: <i>This coin is from the 9th workshop, but rather than use Θ (theta), which is Greek for nine, the engraver used delta (Greek for 4) and epsilon (Greek for 5) which add up to nine. Theta was the first letter of the word death in Greek and was considered by some to also be the symbol of death, so it was best to avoid using it.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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