Details
LOT 3515
Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 297-298. Heraclea mint. 3rd officina.
IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding cornucopia and patera, from which liquor flows; HTΓ in exergue. RIC VI 19a. Good Very Fine. Almost complete original silvering.(9.45gr, 28mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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