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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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