Issuer: Anonymous civic issue, time of Maximinus II Daia

Date: AD 310–313 (struck c. AD 312)

Denomination: AE quarter-nummus / "persecution issue" unit

Mint: Antioch – mintmark SMA in exergue

Obverse (actually civic): GENIO ANTIOCHENI – turreted Tyche of Antioch seated facing on rocks, river-god Orontes swimming right below

Reverse: APOLLONI SANCTO – Apollo standing left (or facing), holding patera and lyre/cithara; Δ (or Z, Γ) in right field

Weight: 1.6 g (measured – matches published 1.6 g)

Diameter: 15 mm (measured – published 15–17 mm)

Metal: copper

References:

- "GENIO AN-TIOCHENI, Tyche... / APOLLONI SANCTO...

- "1.66 gms, 15.44 mm..

Standard catalog: Van Heesch, NC 1993, 66, 3a; McAlee 170c; Vagi 2954

Historical note: Struck at Antioch during the Great Persecution, honoring the patron gods of the city (Tyche and Apollo) rather than the emperor – hence "anonymous" and rare.

Anonymous civic issue, time of Maximinus II Daia Date: AD 310–313 (struck c. AD 312)

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