As (Coin) Portraying Emperor Licinius

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

308-310

Roman, minted in Alexandria, Egypt

The front (obverse) of this coin portrays a laureate head of Emperor Licinius, facing right. On the back (reverse), Genius stands, facing left, holding a patera (dish) in her right hand and a cornucopiae in her left. She wears a modius (hat). Licinius I was emperor from 308-324.

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Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

Artist: Ancient Roman
Title: As (Coin) Portraying Emperor Licinius
Place: Alexandria (Minted in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Struck 308 CE–310 CE
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C VAL LIC LICINIVS PF AVG Reverse: GENIO IMPERATORIS (In field: K BP) (In exergue: ALE)
Dimensions: Diam.: 2.4 cm (1 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1938.1224
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Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932) and Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859-1937), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.

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