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Licinius Follis, Genio Imperatoris, Cyzicus Mint

Æ Follis; 26mm/6.7gm    Struck 309-10 AD

Con/ Very Fine; perfectly centered and sharply struck to either side; crisp and handsome portrait of the emperor; eye-pleasing unblemished green patina.

Obv/ VAL LICINNIANVS LICINNIVS PF AVG; laur. bust right.

Rev/ GENIO IMPERATORIS; Genius of the Emperors standing left, wearing chalmys and crowned with modius, holding cornucopia and patera from which liquor flows. B/Star in opposing fields.

Cyzicus Mint: MKV in exergue

Ref/ RIC VOL VI 57

Seller's Note/ Struck ca. 309-10 AD, this is a very early Licinius issue. Still feeling his way as the new Eastern Roman Emperor, hence the very long obverse legend. In later years it would simply read IMP LICINIVS AVG. RIC rates this coin as common, but after close to thirty years, this is the very first example of this obverse legend that we have ever had the opportunity to present here on NRC.