Maximian BI Nummus. Lugdunum, AD 298. IMP C MAXIMIANVS AVG, laureate and draped bust left, wearing lion skin and holding club over right shoulder / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, nude but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae; B in left field, LP in exergue. P. Bastien, Le monnage de atelier de Lyon, RN XI, Wetteren 1980, 38; RIC 34 and 49. 9.50g, 27mm, 11h.
Near Mint State; much original silvering remaining. Very Rare.
From the Brian Henry Grover Collection;
Ex F. Sternberg, Auction XII, 18-19 November 1982, lot 820.