Live auction - brm_776156 - MAXIMINUS II Follis ou nummus
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Live starting : Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 312-313
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,47 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Très beau buste de style fin. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C MAXIMINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Maximin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus".
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSERVATORI AVGG/ -|B// SMTS.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, debout à droite tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle à gauche, la tête tournée à droite, tenant une couronne dans son bec.
Reverse translation : "Iovi Conservatori Augustorum Nostrum" (À Jupiter le Protecteur de nos augustes).
Historical background
MAXIMINUS II
(1/05/305-04/313)
Augustus
Maximin II, nephew of Galerius, became Caesar on May 1, 305. After the death of Constantius I Chlorus on July 25, 306, he did not become august and remained subordinate to Galerius. At the end of the conference of Carnuntum in November 308, it is only Filius Augustorum while Licinius I becomes august directly. It was not until the following year that Maximin II took the title of august. After Galerius' death in May 311, he was the oldest of the surviving tetrarchs. He falls out with Licinius and Constantine I, while he tries to get closer to Maxentius. After 312, Licinius turns against him and he is finally eliminated in 313.
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