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Time of Maximinus II (AD 308-313), "Great Persecution" issue. AE quarter nummus (15mm, 1.77 gm, 11h). NGC MS★ 4/5 - 5/5. Antioch, 9th officina, ca. AD 310-313. GENIO AN-TIOCHENI, Tyche, turreted and veiled, seated facing on rock, river-god Orontes swimming facing in front / APOLLONI-SANCTO, Apollo standing facing, head left, liquors flowing from patera in right hand, lyre in left; Є/Δ in right field, SMA in exergue. Vagi 2954.
From the Rockport Collection. Privately purchased from Heritage Auctions in the 1980s. Sold with original custom holder listing older catalog references.
Note: The Civic Issues of Antioch, Alexandria and Nicomedia were thought to have been produced by Julian II when RIC VI was written in 1967, and has since been properly placed, but before RIC VIII was completed, therefore the entire series is missing from RIC entirely. This series was produced during the period of Christian persecution by Maximinus II, Diocletian and Galerius and the Antioch issues portray important local statues: the Tyche erected by Eutychides (a pupil of Lysippus), the Apollo by Bryaxis of Athens, and possibly the Zeus Nikephoros of the Temple of Apollo at Daphne which Antiochos IV commissioned for his great festival of 167 BC.
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Time of Maximinus II (AD 308-313), "Great Persecution" issue. AE quarter nummus (15mm, 1.77 gm, 11h). NGC MS★ 4/5 - 5/5. Antioch, 9th officina, ca. AD 310-313. GENIO AN-TIOCHENI, Tyche, turreted and veiled, seated facing on rock, river-god Orontes swimming facing in front / APOLLONI-SANCTO, Apollo standing facing, head left, liquors flowing from patera in right hand, lyre in left; Є/Δ in right field, SMA in exergue. Vagi 2954.
From the Rockport Collection. Privately purchased from Heritage Auctions in the 1980s. Sold with original custom holder listing older catalog references.
Note: The Civic Issues of Antioch, Alexandria and Nicomedia were thought to have been produced by Julian II when RIC VI was written in 1967, and has since been properly placed, but before RIC VIII was completed, therefore the entire series is missing from RIC entirely. This series was produced during the period of Christian persecution by Maximinus II, Diocletian and Galerius and the Antioch issues portray important local statues: the Tyche erected by Eutychides (a pupil of Lysippus), the Apollo by Bryaxis of Athens, and possibly the Zeus Nikephoros of the Temple of Apollo at Daphne which Antiochos IV commissioned for his great festival of 167 BC.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/roman-imperial/ancients-time-of-maximinus-ii-ad-308-313-great-persecution-issue-ae-quarter-nummus-15mm-177-gm-11h-ngc-ms/a/61241-97283.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61241-12192021
HID02906262019
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