Gemini, LLC
Auction 11 12 January 2014
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Constantius I and Galerius as Caesars. 293-305 AD. Follis, 6.86g (12h). Trier, c. 298-9 AD. Obv: CONSTANTIVS ET MAXMIAN[V]S NB C Jugate busts of the two Caesars right, both laureate, draped, cuirassed, seen from front. Rx: GENIO [P]OPV - LI ROMANI Genius standing left, modius on head, naked apart from cloak over shoulders, holding patera and cornucopia; in exergue TR, in field B (officina 2) and star. RIC 373 (R3, citing examples in BM and Madrid). Cohen 1 (pp. 92-3, 100 Fr.). Green patination. EF
Very rare and interesting jugate portrait of the two Caesars of the Diocletianic tetrarchy, struck only at Trier. Two other illustrated examples are both from the same obverse die as our coin: CNG E140, 24 May 2006, lot 174 and UBS 78, 9 September 2008, lot 1935 (withdrawn, but must reproduce an authentic original). Trier also struck a variant of the same type with the jugate busts of Constantius I and Galerius only cuirassed, not draped and cuirassed: Sternberg VIII, 16-17 November 1978, lot 683. In the same issue of folles Trier also struck three other jugate obverse types which were similarly exclusive to this mint: of Diocletian and Maximian, of Diocletian and Galerius, and of Maximian and Hercules (RIC 318, 319, and 276)
Very rare and interesting jugate portrait of the two Caesars of the Diocletianic tetrarchy, struck only at Trier. Two other illustrated examples are both from the same obverse die as our coin: CNG E140, 24 May 2006, lot 174 and UBS 78, 9 September 2008, lot 1935 (withdrawn, but must reproduce an authentic original). Trier also struck a variant of the same type with the jugate busts of Constantius I and Galerius only cuirassed, not draped and cuirassed: Sternberg VIII, 16-17 November 1978, lot 683. In the same issue of folles Trier also struck three other jugate obverse types which were similarly exclusive to this mint: of Diocletian and Maximian, of Diocletian and Galerius, and of Maximian and Hercules (RIC 318, 319, and 276)