Maximinus II Daia — Follis, SOLI INVICTO COMITI, Ticinum

Struck at Ticinum in 312-313, in the months after Constantine took northern Italy. The portrait is Maximinus Daia, Augustus in the East, but the coin itself is a Constantinian issue: Ticinum was Constantine's mint by then, and this is one of the last things struck there in his eastern colleague's name before the two turned on each other. Maximinus was dead by the summer of 313.

The reverse reads SOLI INVI-C-TO COMITI, "to the Unconquered Sun, the Companion." Sol stands with his head turned left, chlamys over his left shoulder, right hand raised and a globe held up in the left: the sun god as the emperor's personal companion, and the world in his hand as the thing on offer. It became the standard reverse of Constantine's coinage for the next decade.

Classical Numismatic Group, cataloguing an example of this type in Electronic Auction 596 (lot 1229, 1 October 2025), wrote: "Rated Common in RIC but only two in CoinArchives." Their coin was an EF piece with a dark brown patina and hammered at $140. This is the same RIC number in a considerably rougher state - green and red patina over the whole flan, the exergue mint mark corroded past reading - and it is priced for what it is. CoinArchives counts move as coins come to market, so CNG's note is best read as true of October 2025.

Attribution: RIC VI Ticinum 130Mint: TicinumWeight: 4.59 gDiameter: 22 mmCatalogued in the NumisLens cabinet — NL-G601K-NV0TQ

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