★ Ex Dattari ★

Maximinus II Daia, as Caesar (305-308), AE follis, issued 308. Alexandria, 2nd officina, 6.81g, 23mm.
Obv: GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB CAES, laureate head right.
Rev: GENIO CAESARIS, Genius standing left, holding patera in right hand with liquid flowing from it, cornucopia in left; P in left field, R in right with officina (B) above, ALE in exergue.
RIC 71 (Alexandria)
From the Severus Alexander collection; Ex Dattari collection.
A superb, perfectly centred example. Giovanni Dattari assembled what was undoubtedly the best ever collection of Imperial-era Alexandrian coins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; see Lucia Carbone, “Giovanni Dattari and His Fabled Collection of Alexandrian Coins,” ANS Journal (Issue 2, 2018), pp. 6-27.