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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 6552868, member: 97383"]The follis pictured below I bought many years ago & lost track of it when I moved to Churchville, NY. This weekend I found the coin at the bottom of a storage box <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. The coin is nothing special, in fact I rarely buy a follis with an odd shaped flan, but this coin had such a handsome classical Roman portrait I couldn't resist. The folles of Galerius as Caesar struck at the Lugdunum Mint were very Eastern in style, & look blocky & cubist like the coin below it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1262840[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Galerius as Caesar, AD 293 -305, Trier Mint, 2nd Officina (struck 298 - 299) AE follis: 9.43 gm, 28 mm, 6 h. Reverse: Genius with patera & cornucopia. RIC VI 344b.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1262879[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Galerius as Caesar, AD 293 - 305, Lugdunum Mint (struck c. 301 - 303) 1st Officina. AE follis: 9.66 gm, 25 mm, 6 h. Reverse: Genius with cornucopia & patera sacrificing over flaming altar. RIC 167b. Rare.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b> </b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 6552868, member: 97383"]The follis pictured below I bought many years ago & lost track of it when I moved to Churchville, NY. This weekend I found the coin at the bottom of a storage box :happy:. The coin is nothing special, in fact I rarely buy a follis with an odd shaped flan, but this coin had such a handsome classical Roman portrait I couldn't resist. The folles of Galerius as Caesar struck at the Lugdunum Mint were very Eastern in style, & look blocky & cubist like the coin below it. [ATTACH=full]1262840[/ATTACH] [B]Galerius as Caesar, AD 293 -305, Trier Mint, 2nd Officina (struck 298 - 299) AE follis: 9.43 gm, 28 mm, 6 h. Reverse: Genius with patera & cornucopia. RIC VI 344b. [ATTACH=full]1262879[/ATTACH] Galerius as Caesar, AD 293 - 305, Lugdunum Mint (struck c. 301 - 303) 1st Officina. AE follis: 9.66 gm, 25 mm, 6 h. Reverse: Genius with cornucopia & patera sacrificing over flaming altar. RIC 167b. Rare. [/B] [B] [/B][/QUOTE]
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