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ID:     79001225
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Roman Imperial
Issuer:     Pagan Coinage of the Tetrarchy
Date Ruled:     A.D. 305-311
Metal:     Bronze
Denomination:     AE15
Date Struck:     AD 310-313
Diameter:     15 mm
Weight:     1.14 g
Die Axis:     6 h
Obverse Description:     Head of Serapis right, wearing modius
Reverse Description:     Nilus reclining left, holding reed and cradling cornucopia in arm; Γ
Mint:     Alexandria
Primary Reference:     Van Heesch, Last, 6b
Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group
Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=127736
Grade:     VF, rough desert patina.
Notes:     Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1225 J. van Heesch has provided the latest chronology for these anonymous civic bronzes of the fourth century AD. An active campaign of persecution against local Christians, abetted by Maximinus, reached its height in Nicomedia, Antioch, and Alexandria. Churches were closed and property was seized from Christians, who were expelled from many cities. The three major mint cities struck a series of small bronzes honoring the old Greco-Roman gods, Jupiter, Apollo, Tyche, and Serapis among them. The persecutions subsided in AD 313, possibly as a result of concerns expressed by Constantine and Licinius, the emperors in the west.