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LOT 3758
Diocletian BI Antoninianus. AD 286-287. Ticinum mint. 1st officina.
IMP C VAL DIOCLETIANVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / HERCVLI CONSERVAT, Hercules standing to right, holding his right hand behind his back and leaning his left on club set on rock; lion's skin draped over club; PXXIT in exergue. RIC 215; Cohen 133; Venèra 6295-309. Good Very Fine.(3.35gr, 24mm, 7h.).
Provenance
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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