Details
LOT 3057
Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 284-305.
Siscia mint; struck AD 295. 3rd officina. IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing to left, modius on head, holding patera and cornucopia; Γ in left field, ✶SIS in exergue. RIC VI 85a. Good Very Fine.(8.98gr, 27mm, 7h.).
Provenance
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK antiquarian.
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