Nummus - Maximinus II GENIO AVGVSTI, crescent-officina, Siscia

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.