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ID number: BIRBI-R2526 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Diocletian; Londinium Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: United Kingdom, London Culture: Roman Date made: 300-305 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 8.76 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Haines 4011. Ex H. V. Wade Collection, A. H. Baldwin, 1963. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Diocletian, wearing laurel wreath and beard, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked and wearing modius, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and cornucopia in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C DIOCLETIHNVS P F AVC (Imperator Caesar Diocletian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: GENIO POPV-LI ROMΛNI (To the Genius of the Roman People).
Bibliography: RIC VI 6A
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