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335, Lot: 615. Estimate $300.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximianus. First reign, AD 286-305. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.74 g, 12h). Siscia mint, 2nd officina. Struck AD 288-290. Radiate and cuirassed bust right / Maximianus, holding scepter, and Hercules, leaning on club, standing facing one another, sacrificing over altar; -/-//BXXIKOY. RIC V 580. EF. Good silver quality.


From RIC V (p. 211): So great was the honour paid to the two gods (i.e., Jupiter and Hercules) that portions of their adopted names, IOBI and HPKOYΛI, were embodied in the mint-marks of certain coins of Siscia which bear the reverse legend CONSERVATOR AVGG.