Description: Archaios Numismatics __________________________________________ Description:Roman Anonymous Follis City Commemorative of Constantinopolis, 333-335 AD. Obverse: Laureate and bearded cuirassed bust of Licinius right; IMP LICINIVS P F AVG around Reverse: Genius standing slightly left, turreted head left, chlamys over shoulders and left arm, pouring libations from patera in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, T-F in fields, ATR in exergue. GENIO POP ROM (to the guardian spirit of the Roman people) around. Mint: Treveri (Trier, Germany) Size: 22 mm Weight: 3.28 g Inventory: 31.4 Reference: RIC VII, 120 Condition: VF+/aEF. A very nice example of this issue. As always, Use the Picture as your judge as grading is subjective. Notes: Licinius I (263 – 325 AD) was a Roman emperor from 308 to 324. For most of his reign he was the colleague and rival of Constantine I, with whom he co-authored the Edict of Milan (AD 313) that granted official toleration to Christians in the Roman Empire. He was finally defeated at the Battle of Chrysopolis (AD 324), and was later executed on the orders of Constantine I. Licinius was born to a Dacian peasant family in Moesia Superior and accompanied his close childhood friend, the future emperor Galerius, on the Persian expedition in 298. He was trusted enough by Galerius that in 307 he was sent as an envoy to Maxentius in Italy to attempt to reach some agreement about the latter's illegitimate political position. Galerius elevated Licinius to the rank of Augustus in the West on November 11, 308 his immediate command were the Balkan provinces of Illyricum, Thrace and Pannonia. In 310 he took command of the war against the Sarmatians, inflicting a severe defeat on them. On the death of Galerius in May 311, Licinius entered into an agreement with Maximinus II (Daia) to share the eastern provinces between them. By this point, not only was Licinius the official Augustus of the west but he also possessed part of the eastern provinces as well, as the Hellespont and the Bosporus became the dividing line, with Licinius taking the European provinces and Maximinus taking the Asian. An alliance between Maximinus and Maxentius forced the two remaining emperors to enter into a formal agreement with each other. In March 313 Licinius married Flavia Julia Constantia, half-sister of Constantine I, at Mediolanum (now Milan); they had a son, Licinius the Younger, in 315. Their marriage was the occasion for the jointly-issued "Edict of Milan" that reissued Galerius' previous edict allowing Christianity (and any religion one might choose) to be professed in the Empire, with additional dispositions that restored confiscated properties to Christian congregations and exempted Christian clergy from municipal civic duties. Genius - In Roman religion, every man has a genius, a presiding spirit. In De Die Natali, Censorinus says, from the moment we are born, we live under the guard and tutelage of Genius. Cities, organizations, and peoples also had a genius. On coins, we find inscriptions to the Genius of the Army, of the Senate, of the Emperor, etc. The legend GENIO POP ROM dedicates this coin to the Genius of the Roman People. Genius' image is of a man with a cloak half covering the shoulders leaving the rest of his body naked, holding a cornucopia in one hand, and a simpulum or a patera in the other. Excerpts from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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Composition: Bronze
Era: Ancient
Historical Period: Roman: Imperial (27 BC-476 AD)
