Maximinus II, 310-313.
Anonymous "civic" coinage for Antioch.
GENIO ANTIOCHENI, Tyche of Antioch with river-god swimming below. (This was a famous statue.)
APOLLONI SANCTO. Apollo standing with patera and lyre. SMA in exergue. B in right field.
Struck c. end 310 - June 311 under Maximinus II.

Sear IV 14927. Not in RIC, but common anyway. It should be in volume VI with coins of Maximinus II, but in 1973 when volume VI was published, this series of pagan types was thought to belong under Julian II, the Apostate, whose coins would eventually be in volume VIII. However, by 1981 when volume VIII was published Johan van Heesch had convincingly demonstrated (in 1975) they belonged under Maximinus II, so they were omitted from RIC VIII and it was too late to put them in volume VI where they belonged. 


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