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Contributor: Clay Dorminey.
Issuer: MAGNUS MAXIMUS, AD 383-388. AR Siliqua (1.6g).
Obverse: DN MAGNVS MAXIMVS PF AVG, his pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust facing right.
Reverse: VIRTVS ROMANORVM, Roma enthroned facing, head left, holding globe and spear, between two standards; in exergue, TRPS.
Reference: RIC IX 84b Trier mint; Cohen 30. Grade: EF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Magnus Maximus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Magnus Maximus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.
Ex. Holway Hoard.