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Maximinus ll Daia Civic Issue


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New addition to the collection courtesy of Forum Ancient Coins:

Maximinus Daia May 310 - 30 April 313

Antioch, Syria 

Civic Christian Persecution Issue

AE Quarter Follis, 1.31 grams, 15.3 mm 6th Officina, Antioch 312 C.E.

Obverse: GENIO ANTIOCHENI, Tyche seated facing on rocks, turreted and veiled, stalks of grain right, river god Orontes swimming below

Reverse: APOLLINI SANCTO, Apollo standing left, pouring libation from patera in right hand, lyre in left hand, zeta to right, SMA in exergue

Reference: McAlee 170(f), Vagi 2954, Van Heesch 3(a), SRCV IV 14927

In 311 an embassy from Antioch, led by their curator Theotecnus, asked Maximinus to ban Christians from their city. Other cities made the same request. Maximinus' support for this request is demonstrated by this coin type. But fearing other emperors including Licinius, Maximinus' Edict in 313 restored Christian privileges and property. Licinius captured Antioch in 313 and had Theotecnus executed.

Please share any of these so-called anonymous civic issues!

 

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Found quite a way from Antioch.

Anonymous AE4 (Maximinus II), 312
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Antioch. Bronze, 16mm, 1.24g. Genius of Antioch, turreted, veiled, seated facing, the river god Orontes swimming below; GENIO ANTIOCHENI. Apollo standing left, holding patera and lyre; APOLLONI SANCTO; officina Z in right field; mintmark SMA (Van Heesch 3). Found Carlisle, Cumbria.

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1 hour ago, John Conduitt said:

Found quite a way from Antioch.

Anonymous AE4 (Maximinus II), 312
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Antioch. Bronze, 16mm, 1.24g. Genius of Antioch, turreted, veiled, seated facing, the river god Orontes swimming below; GENIO ANTIOCHENI. Apollo standing left, holding patera and lyre; APOLLONI SANCTO; officina Z in right field; mintmark SMA (Van Heesch 3). Found Carlisle, Cumbria.

Well John that shows how widely these types circulated in the Roman Empire of the time. I'm wondering what the purchasing power of the quarter follis was. Probably not much.

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Here's mine:-

 

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There were several of these in the auction I won this in; I chose this because of the Officina. The ninth Officina would normally have been theta, but these superstitious pagans avoided it because it was the first letter of death in Greek. Instead they used epsilon delta (5 and 4) which kept the grim reaper at bay. 

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