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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 4684736, member: 82549"]Nice coins, everyone.</p><p>One comment: don't think of "Genius" the way we do today. It didn't really have anything to do with intelligence. Back then the Genius was thought of as a sort of guardian angel or spirit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have noticed this, too. And many of these coins from Antioch, and to a lesser extent, Alexandria, are still in outstanding states of preservation. My guess is that many were pulled from circulation and hoarded because of the reduction in size of the nummi shortly after they were issued. Here's my GENIO AVGVSTI example from Antioch:</p><p><img src="http://feltemp.com/Images/Restoration/MaximinusII.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><u><b>Maximinus II ("Daia")</b></u></p><p>Antioch mint, A.D. 312</p><p>Obv: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG</p><p>Rev: GENIO AVGVSTI - Genius, modius on head, naked but for chlamys hanging from shoulder, holding head of Sol and cornucopiae</p><p>ANT in exergue; ✳ in left field, S in right</p><p>RIC 164b</p><p>22mm, 4.7g.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 4684736, member: 82549"]Nice coins, everyone. One comment: don't think of "Genius" the way we do today. It didn't really have anything to do with intelligence. Back then the Genius was thought of as a sort of guardian angel or spirit. I have noticed this, too. And many of these coins from Antioch, and to a lesser extent, Alexandria, are still in outstanding states of preservation. My guess is that many were pulled from circulation and hoarded because of the reduction in size of the nummi shortly after they were issued. Here's my GENIO AVGVSTI example from Antioch: [IMG]http://feltemp.com/Images/Restoration/MaximinusII.JPG[/IMG] [U][B]Maximinus II ("Daia")[/B][/U] Antioch mint, A.D. 312 Obv: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG Rev: GENIO AVGVSTI - Genius, modius on head, naked but for chlamys hanging from shoulder, holding head of Sol and cornucopiae ANT in exergue; ✳ in left field, S in right RIC 164b 22mm, 4.7g.[/QUOTE]
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