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Follis - Galerius GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Cyzicus
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Cyzicus |
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| Year | 307 |
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| Weight | 8.87 g |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG |
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| Mintage | ND (307) - Cyzicus |
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Galerius struck this issue at Cyzicus during one of the most administratively fractured moments in Roman history — 307 AD saw no fewer than six claimants holding or contesting imperial titles simultaneously, the Tetrarchic system visibly unraveling after Maxentius seized power in Rome the previous year. The GENIO POPVLI ROMANI reverse type had been a workhorse of Tetrarchic propaganda since Diocletian's reforms, deliberately impersonal in its divine appeal — the Genius of the Roman People rather than any individual emperor's guardian spirit, a calculated message of collective legitimacy.
RIC VI 27a places this among the earlier Cyzicus issues before the mint shifted officina arrangements under mounting political pressure from the western usurpers.