Details
LOT 3355
Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 284-305.
Treveri mint; struck AD 296-297. 3rd officina. IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing to left, modius on head, holding patera and cornucopia; C Γ across fields, TR in exergue. RIC VI 187a. Very Fine.(8.19gr, 26mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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