GENIO POPVLI ROMANI folles:Emperors and mints. c. AD 294 - 312.
GENIO POPVLI ROMANI folles:
Emperors and mints. c. AD 294 - 312.
Key: X or x or NIR, the type exists.
If "X" it is illustrated on the linked page.
If "x", it exists in RIC, but is not illustrated.
If "NIR" it exists (as proven by linked examples) but is Not In RIC.
-- it is not in RIC (and, as far as I know, does not exist).
n1, n2, n3, etc. see the footnote
Links to images by emperor: Diocletian, Maximian,
Constantius, Galerius, Maximinus II, Severus II,
Constantine, Domitius Domitianus.
Links to images by mint.
This page is part of a large site on coins of the tetrarchies, 284-324. An index to its many pages is here.
This table does not include quarter folles (which have their own page), nor does it include coins with the abbreviated legend GENIO POP ROM (which have their own page.)
| Emperor \ mints (links by emperor \ by mint) |
London n1 |
Trier n1 |
Lyons n1 |
Ticinum n2 |
Aquileia n2 |
Rome n2 |
Siscia n3 |
Serdica n4 |
Thess- alonica n4 |
Heraclea | Nico- media |
Cyzicus n5 |
Antioch | Alex- andria n6 |
| Diocletian |
X |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Maximian | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Constantius as Caesar | X | X | x | X | X | X | x | X | x | x | X | --n5 | X | X |
| Galerius as Caesar | X | X | X | X | x | X | x | X | x | X | x | --n5 | X | X |
|
Constantius as Augustus |
x | x | X | -- | -- | -- | --n3 | X | -- | X | X | x | X | X |
| Galerius as Augustus | x | x | x | -- | -- | -- | --n3 | x | -- | x | X | X | X | -- |
| Maximinus II as Caesar | X | X | X | -- | -- | -- | -- | X | -- | x | X | y | X | -- |
| Severus II as Caesar | X | X | X | -- | -- | -- | -- | X | -- | X | -- | --n5 | X | -- |
| Severus II as Augustus | x | x | x | -- | -- | -- | -- | x | -- | x | NIR | X | NIR | -- |
| Constantine as Caesar | x | X | X | -- | -- | -- | -- | x | -- | x | x | -- | NIR n7 | -- |
| Constantine as Augustus | -- | -- | -- | X | -- | X | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | X n6 |
| Maximinus II as Augustus | -- | -- | -- | X | -- | x | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Licinius | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | x | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | X n6 |
| Domitius Domitianus | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | X |
Ostia and Carthage minted in this period, but did not mint the GENIO POPVLI ROMANI type.
n1 London, Trier, and Lyons switched to using GENIO POP AVG before Constantine became Augustus.
n2 Ticinum, Aquileia, Rome, and Siscia discontinued GENIO POPVLI ROMANI in favor of SACRA MONETA c. 300. Ticinum resumed it, but with smaller diameter and lower weight, under Constantine c. 312-313, for Constantine and Maximinus II (Licinius seems to belong in this issue, but is not noted in RIC). Rome resumed it, but with smaller diameter and lower weight, under Constantine c. 312-313, for Constantine, Maximinus II, and Licinus. These resumed issues are in RIC VII, not in RIC VI like all the others.
n3 c. 305-6 Siscia minted GENIO POPVLI ROMANI quarter-folles, but not folles. See my page on the quarter-follis denomination.
n4 Serdica was open from c. 303 to 308, just when Thessalonica was closed. It is thought that the key workers from Thessaloncia were moved to Serdica for that interval. There is some similarity of style.
n5 Cyzicus issued GPR only for Augusti and the same design had legend GENIO AVGG ET CAESARVM NN for the Caesars. RIC has it at Cyzicus for Maximinus II as Caesar as Cyzicus 37 (page 585), but it says "Confirmation required" so I am not listing it here. If you have evidence it exists, let me know.
n6 At Alexandria Licinius and Constantine as Augustus reappear with GPR after 312 in RIC VII (not RIC VI).
n7 Constantine as Caesar at Antioch is not rare. It is known from ten officinia, but was omitted from RIC. See under "before 81" at "Not in RIC".
Acknowledgement: Thanks to Wolfram Tillack who helped me with types that exist but are not in RIC.
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