Maximinus I, Alexandria, AE tetradrachm

AVTO MAXIMINOS EVC SEB, Radiate and cuirassed bust right
LG, Laureate bust of Hermanubis right, wearing 
kalathos and lotus crown, combined caduceus and palm before.

Notes: RCV (2005) 8383; Dattari 4576; BMCG 1789, Milne 3250.

Hermanubis was a psychopomp, a conductor of the 
dead, combining the properties of the Greek Hermes 
and the Egyptian Anubis.

Contributed by Bill Welch, August 2009.