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ID number:  BIRBI-R2533
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:  303-305
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.70
Weight (g):  10.28
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 137. W. S. Lincoln, 1914.
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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.; S and F in field, to l. and r. of figure respectively.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IMP DIOCLETIANVS ΛVG (Imperator Diocletian Augustus). Reverse: GENIO POP...-II ROMANI (To the Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: PTR

Bibliography:  RIC VI 582A

Notes:  According to RIC, the PTR in the exergue of the reverse and the S F in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Treveri.

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Diocletian
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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
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