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397, Lot: 664. Estimate $150.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galerius. AD 305-311. Æ 1/8 Follis (13mm, 1.39 g, 5h). Treveri (Trier) mint. Struck circa summer AD 307. MAXIMI ANVS AVG, laureate head right / VOT/ XXX/ AVGG in three lines within wreath. RIC VI 752 (r2); Zschucke 6.5. VF, rough, brown surfaces. Rare.


From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.

RIC calls these small bronze coins unmarked quarter-folles. Carl-Friedrich Zschucke, in Die Bronze-Teilstuck-Pragungen der romischen Munzstatte Trier, identifies this issue as a 1/8 Follis.