Late Roman Bronze Coins

Coin talk => COTD => Topic started by: Victor on July 28, 2021, 09:35:47 AM

Title: Maxentius CONSERVATOR AFRICAE SVAE from Carthage
Post by: Victor on July 28, 2021, 09:35:47 AM

I finally got this nice example from Germany...you can fairly easily make out that it is an elephant trunk sticking up from the head of Africa.


Maxentius
A.D. 307
28mm       9.6g
IMP MAXENTIVS P F AVG; Laureate head right.
CONSERVATOR AFRICAE SVAE; Africa standing facing, head left, in long drapery with elephant- skin head-dress, right holding standard, left tusk, at feet to left lion with captured bull, in right field I.; SE in left field, F in right.
In ex. Γ         
RIC VI Carthage 57