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ID number: BIRBI-R2637 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Diocletian; Lugdunum Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: France, Lyons Culture: Roman Date made: 307 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 9.23 Axis (degrees): 225.00 Provenance: Whitting 4601. Ex Sydenham, A. H. Baldwin, November 1963. |

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