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ID number: BIRBI-R2536 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Diocletian; Lugdunum Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: France, Lyons Culture: Roman Date made: 307 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 7.79 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 1562. W. S. Lincoln, 1932. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Diocletian, wearing laurel wreath and beard, wearing imperial mantle, holding olive-branch in r. and mappa in l., facing r. Reverse: Quies, draped, standing facing l., holding branch in r. and sceptre in l.; N in field, to r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D V DIOCLETIHNO P F S HVC (Our Lord Diocletian Pius Felix, Senior Augustus). Reverse: QVIES HV-CVSTOHVM (Imperial Retirement). In Exergue: PLC
Bibliography: RIC VI 216
Notes: According to RIC, the PLC in the exergue of the reverse and the N in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Lugdunum.
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