RIC VI, SERDICA 2b, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Δ

OBVERSE	MAXIMIA-NVSNOBC [MAXIMIANVS NOB C]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	VIRTVS-MILITVM [VIRTVS MILITVM]; Three-turreted campgate, open, without doors. •SM•SDΔ• in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED OFFICINA - Δ. RIC lists officinae Α, Β and Є [rarity R4] (p. 491). General note about this issue from p. 486: "Struck from five officinae (though not all of these are now well evidenced) and at a weight of c. 3.3 gm., this was in the names of all four rulers: the reverse type was the late three-turreted camp-gate (open and without doors) which had already appeared at Thessalonica, with legend Virtus Militum. The coins are now of considerable rarity". Listed in: Georges Gautier, "Le monnayage d'argent de Serdica après la réforme de Dioclétien", Revue Numismatique 1991, XXXIII, p. 107, no. 11.

NOTES

Argenteus. Weight 3.41 g. Offered on Classical Numismatic Group auction in June 2005 for $1,500. Other specimens: - specimen sold on Gorny & Mosch auction in October 2006 for $502; weight 3.03 g [click for picture]; - specimen from Gautier's article quoted above (plate IX, no. 11a); weight 3.08 g [click for picture]; - specimen from Gautier's article quoted above (plate IX, no. 11b); weight 3.07 g [click for picture].