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Coin of Maximian

Roman (Artist)
297 CE (Late Antique)
bronze; struck

Obverse: Head of Maximian, laureate, bearded, right; beaded border. Reverse: Africa standing, frontal, head turned to left, draped, holding an ivory tusk in the left hand and a vexillum (military standard) in the right; lion and bull to left, at feet [unclear in our example]; in field to left, B (officina mark); beaded border.

Inscription

[Inscription, Latin; obverse] IMP(erator) MAXIMIANVS P(ius) F(elix) AVG(ustus) [Translation] Imperator Maximianus, pious, lucky, Augustus [Inscription, Latin; reverse] FELIX ADVENT(us) AVGG (Augustorum) NN (Nostrorum); in exergue, P(ercussa) K(arthaginis) S(ecundo) [Translation] The happy arrival of our Augusti; struck at the second mint office of Carthage

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.

Art Trading Co. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1942, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5296]; Saidie A. May, Baltimore, 1942, by purchase [said to be from Hungary]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by gift.

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Geographies

Tunisia, Carthage (Place of Origin)

Measurements

Max diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm); axis: 6:00

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Saidie A. May, 1942

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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59.597

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