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Nummus - Galerius as Caesar draped, cuirassed, MAXIMIANVS NOBIL C, GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Londinium
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Londinium |
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| Year | 303-305 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The Genius of the Roman People stands facing left in the reverse field, depicted as a nude male figure wearing a modius on his head and a chlamys draped over his left shoulder. He extends a patera in his raised right hand and holds a cornucopiae in his left hand, symbolizing abundance and divine favour toward the Roman state. The encircling legend GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI is distributed across the field. No mintmark appears in the exergue for this particular issue from the Londinium mint (RIC VI, 34). The composition reflects the standardized Tetrarchic reverse type introduced under Diocletian's monetary reforms. |
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Struck at Londinium during the First Tetrarchy, this nummus falls within the brief window when Galerius still bore the title Caesar under Diocletian — a subordinate rank he held with evident frustration before his elevation to Augustus in 305. The London mint had been reopened around 296 specifically to supply the western campaigns of Constantius, and its output during this tetrarchic phase is notably uneven, with RIC VI 34 among the better-documented types from the officina sequence.
Galerius is credited by ancient sources as the principal architect of the Great Persecution launched in 303, the same year this coin begins its issue range.