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ID number: BIRBI-R2529 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Diocletian; Treveri Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Trier Culture: Roman Date made: 294 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 9.81 Axis (degrees): 45.00 Provenance: Haines 1474. W. S. Lincoln, 1932. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Diocletian, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing l., as seen from behind. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked and wearing modius, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and cornucopia in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IIΛP B UIOCLETIHɪɪVS P F HVC (Imperator Caesar Diocletian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CbNIO POPV-LI HOMHNI (To the Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: LH
Bibliography: RIC VI 138
Notes: According to RIC, the [TR] in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Treveri.
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