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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 6004206, member: 87404&quot;]Here&#039;s the namesake... Maximus:</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/incollage_20200524_153639014.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Maximus, as Caesar, 235-238 AD</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AE Sestertius, Struck Late 236-237 AD, Rome mint</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: MAXIMVS CAES GERM, bare-headed bust, draped, right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: PIETAS AVG, emblems of the pontificate: littus, secespita, patera, capis, simpulum, and aspergillum, SC below.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: RIC iV 11</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 29mm, 16.97g</font></p><p><font size="3"><i>Ex: Warren Esty, Augustus Coins (5/17/20);</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>Ken Dorney, Auction 9 (11/29/19), lot #133;</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>Ken Dorney, VCoins (n.d.), #4750;</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>Owl Coins, Spring-Summer List (1976), Lot #90</i></font></p><p><br /></p><p>His father:</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/incollage_20200622_142428749.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Maximinus Thrax, Ruled 235-238 AD</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AR Denarius, Struck 236 AD, Rome mint</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: P M TR P II COS P P Maximinus, in military dress, standing left between two standards, raising his right hand in salute and holding spear in his left.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: RIC 3</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 21mm, 2.95g</font></p><p><br /></p><p>And the later Maximianus:</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/incollage_20200506_123105402.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Maximian, First Reign 286-305 AD</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>AE Silvered Follis, Struck 295-296 AD, Cyzicus mint</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, head of Maximian, laureate, right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius, nude, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing left, pouring liquid from patera in right hand and holding cornucopiae in left hand; KЄ in exergue.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: RIC VI Cyzicus 10b</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 27mm, 10.5g</font></p><p><font size="3"><i>Note: Much of silvering still intact.</i></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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