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ID number: BIRBI-R2549 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Diocletian; Kyzikos Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Roman Date made: 297-299 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.80 Weight (g): 11.12 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 323. W. S. Lincoln, 1932. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Diocletian, wearing laurel wreath and beard, facing r. Reverse: Genius, naked but cloaked and wearing modius, standing facing l., holding patera in r. and cornucopia in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C C VHL DIOCLETIΔNVS P F AVC (Imperator Caesar Gaius Valerius Diocletian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: CENIO POPV-LI ROMHNI (To the Genius of the Roman People). In Exergue: KΓ
Bibliography: RIC VI 12A
Notes: According to RIC, the KΓ in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Kyzikos.
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