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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2165697, member: 57495&quot;]Nice keeper, Bing. I&#039;d have loved to have it as a companion piece to my Maxentius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours marks Maximian&#039;s triumphant return to Carthage after a brutal campaign against rebellious Berber tribes. The same reverse was used some years later by his son to proclaim himself as the protector of Africa, just shortly before losing it to Domitius Domitianus. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]417396[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>MAXENTIUS</b></p><p>AE Follis, 27.5mm, 10.27g</p><p>Carthage mint, 2nd officina, early 307 AD, RIC 57</p><p>O: IMP MAXENTIVS PF AVG, laureate head right.</p><p>R: CONSERVATOR AFRICAE SVAE, SE-F in field, Africa standing left, wearing elephant skin headdress and holding standard and elephant tusk, at feet to left a lion with captured bull, B in exergue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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