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LOT 3351
Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 286-305.
Heraclea mint; struck AD 297-298. 1st officina. IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPV-L-I ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding cornucopia and patera, from which liquid flows; HTA in exergue. RIC VI 19a. Very Fine.(10.05gr, 28mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Ex Nash collection, 1990s-2000s.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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