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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 378. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. 
Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximinus II. As Caesar, AD 305-309. Æ Follis (6.57 g, 12h). Antioch mint, 6th officina. Struck AD 309. MAXIMINVS NOB CAES, laureate half-length bust right, wearing imperial mantle and raising right hand / IOVIO PROPAGAT ORBIS TERRARVN, Maximinus standing right, holding drapery with left hand and crowning Victory on globe in right; altar to right; ς (retrograde)/-//ANT. RIC VI 134 var. (star on rev.). Good VF, brown patina. Very rare.


From the White Mountain Collection.

Sutherland in RIC lists this issue as being struck in AD 310, but the obverse legend indicates that it was struck while Maximinus was still Caesar in AD 309.