Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R2527 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: Silver and base metal Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 11.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2902. Rev. Sydenham Collection Sale, A. H. Baldwin, 1953. |
|
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 DIOCLETIΠNVS AVC (Imperator Diocletian Augustus). Reverse: CENIO POPV-LI bOMΛNI (To the Genius of the Roman People).
Bibliography: RIC VI 28A
Notes: Silvered.
|