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LOT 3172
Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 284-305.
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 307. 1st officina. D N DIOCLETIANO P F S AVG, laureate bust to right, wearing imperial mantle and holding olive branch and mappa / QVIES AVGVSTORVM, Quies standing facing, head to left, holding branch and sceptre; N in right field; PLG in exergue. RIC VI 216; Cohen 430. Good Very Fine.(9.95gr, 28mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Lugdunum mint; struck AD 307. 1st officina. D N DIOCLETIANO P F S AVG, laureate bust to right, wearing imperial mantle and holding olive branch and mappa / QVIES AVGVSTORVM, Quies standing facing, head to left, holding branch and sceptre; N in right field; PLG in exergue. RIC VI 216; Cohen 430. 9.95gr, 28mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
