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Silvered Denarius - Æ 19 mm - 2,4 grams - Die axis 11:00. |
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IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG (Imperator Maximinus Pius Augustus - Imperator M. the Pious Augustus).
Laureate and draped bust of bearded emperor facing right.
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VICTORIA GERM (Victoria Germania - Victory over the Germans).
Victoria draped, standing, body full front facing left, in Stola, wings at right. Right arm outstretched holding wreath with at coins left side a small altar or captive at her feet.
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The (original) coin announced his impressive victory over the Alemmani tribe in AD 236-238. Most of these coins have on obverse an IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM. So a falsification in combination with the copper core ? It is also a mule : a mix of an obverse and reverse that do not belong together.
So it is an ancient counterfeit, combining two counterfeit dies that imitate official dies, but not two die types that belong(ed) together.
Obv. : Flat, crude-ish - Rev. : Good
At 10:00-11:00 copper base shines through at rim. |
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