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LOT 3359
Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 284-305.
Antioch mint; struck AD 300-301. 2nd officina. IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding cornucopia and patera, from which liquid flows; K in left field, B over V in right field, ANT in exergue. RIC VI 54a. Good Very Fine.(9.36gr, 27mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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