Follis - Maximianus GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Alexandria

By 303–304, the Diocletianic reform coinage was already struggling to hold its intended weight standard, and Alexandria's output from this period reflects that pressure — the mint was producing folles at the heavier end of the post-reform range, but not for long. The GENIO POPVLI ROMANI reverse type was a deliberate ideological choice by Diocletian, framing the genius of the Roman people as a unifying force across a tetrarchic empire increasingly administered in separate quarters.

RIC VI 36b specifically assigns this issue to Maximianus rather than Diocletian on the basis of die control marks and mintmark positioning within the Alexandrian sequence — a distinction that matters considerably for attribution.