RIC VI, THESSALONICA 48, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Γ

OBVERSE	DIVOMAXIMIANO [DIVO MAXIMIANO]; bust r., veiled.
REVERSE	MEMDIVIM-AXIMIANI [MEM DIVI MAXIMIANI]; eagle surmounting domed shrine with closed doors. Γ in right field. •SM•TS• in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED OFFICINA - Γ. RIC lists for this issue only officina A (p. 518 - very rare: R5!). General note about this issue from p. 507: "A small and now extremely rare Mem Divi Maximiani was struck in honour of Galerius. Date, c. 311". Note that Jules Maurice also attested only officina A ("L'Atelier monétaire de Thessalonica pendant la période Constantinienne", Numismatische Zeitschrift 1901 [Wien 1902], vol. XXXIII, p. 115; after Voetter), but specimen shown there on plate IV is undoubtedly from officina Γ. See also: THESSALONICA 48, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Β THESSALONICA 48, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Δ THESSALONICA 48, GALERIUS MAXIMIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Є

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Weight 4.45 g; diameter 24 mm. Sold on Classical Numismatic Group auction in August 2010 for $190. Other specimens: - specimen sold on Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung auction in October 2005 for $723; weight 4.97 g [click for picture]; - specimen sold on Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH auction in September 2006 for $216; now in the Robert Bernobich Collection; weight 4.36 g; diameter 25 mm [click for picture]; - specimen sold on eBay in October 2008 for EUR 630; weight 4.43 g [click for picture]; - specimen from Jerome Holderman's collection; weight 4.9 g; diameter 23 mm [click for picture]; - specimen sold on Thesaurus "Idra" auction in December 2008 for EUR 260; weight 4.6 g [click for picture]; - specimen from Stoca hoard [Meixner, I., "Neki kovovi iz nalaza kod Stoca koje ne poznaje najnovija radnja Sutherlanda »Roman Imperial Coinage«, VI sv. 1967. godine" [Some coins from Stoca hoard which are unlisted in the latest Sutherland's work "Roman Imperial Coinage" vol. VI, 1967], Numizmatičke vijesti, vol. XVI/27, 1969, p. 18, plate V, no. 7]; weight 5.50 g; diameter 23 mm [click for picture]; - specimen from Bastien AMGM, plate VII, no. 80; weight 4.74 g [click for picture]; - specimen from FORVM ANCIENT COINS; weight 4.87 g; diameter 23.6 mm [click for picture]; - specimen offered on Fritz Rudolf Künker auction in September 2010 for EUR 250; weight 5.23 g [click for picture]; - specimen from Maurice's article cited above (plate IV, no. 3) [click for picture]; - specimen sold on eBay in May 2012 for $149.95 [click for picture].