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Nummus - Maximinus II GENIO AVGVSTI, crescent-officina, Siscia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Siscia |
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| Year | 310-311 |
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| Value | Nummus / Follis (1/4) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The Genius of the Emperor stands facing left, nude save for a chlamys draped over the left shoulder, wearing a modius (grain measure) on his head. He holds a patera in his right hand, from which he pours a libation, and a cornucopia in his left hand. The mint mark SIS appears in the exergue, and an officina letter is visible in the right field. The encircling legend GENIO AVGVSTI honours the divine spirit of the Emperor. |
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Maximinus II was locked in an uneasy alliance with Galerius during these years, nominally subordinate despite controlling Egypt and the eastern provinces. When Galerius died in May 311 — the same man who had just issued the Edict of Serdica granting Christians toleration — Maximinus immediately moved to reassert persecution in his territories, rendering the edict effectively dead on arrival in the East. The Siscia mint's crescent officina mark places this piece within a tightly sequenced production run that RIC VI attributes to the period just before that political rupture.