Good afternoon everyone!
For completeness, this is what we say in LMCC:
"An apparent variety of 2.01.007 with a palmed cuirass appeared as part of Lot 689 in TRITON IV.
The catalogue description concludes: ‘The one unpublished variety deserves a complete description: Maximianus. Æ Follis (11.39 gm) IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG , laureate and cuirassed bust right / GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI , Genius standing left, holding patera in right hand, cornucopiae in left, al- tar left, drapery around waist. The reverse of this coin with the altar and draped loins is more reminiscent of Lugdunum, but the obverse is clearly of London style, cf. RIC VI 17-22.’ The laboured handling of the reverse design, especially of the drapery, suggests an attempt by a British forger, unfamiliar with this design, to copy a Lyon coin such as RIC VI 67. The engraver was careful to drop the right field mark and the mint mark, but retained the altar in the left field, perhaps not realizing it too was part of the Lyon mark. Compare with Bastien 1980,171, pl. XXII.277a-e (RIC VI 92b for Lyon) for style."
Always open to other views though.
We found a number of coins, some in RIC, that we have suggested are unofficial. We have not done this lightly and have explained our position in each case after careful review.
Six2Ten - can we use your image of this coin on our website? We only have the original TRITON IV version which was a bit grainy to use in the book.
Best wishes
Lee Toone (and Hugh Cloke)