Diocletian




Follis

PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES AVGG

Reference :
Weight: 7.61 grs
Metal: Indeterminate
Diameter: 26.00 mm
Scarcity: Common

Obverse

Reverse

Bust

D N DIOCLETIANO FELICISSIMO SEN AVG

Consular bust of Diocletian with the trabea on the right. Holding an olive branch with the right hand and the mappa with the left hand.

PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES AVGG

Providentia standing left, draped, raising her right hand. Quies standing right in front of her, holding a laurel branch with the right hand and a long scepter with the left hand.

Picture of type

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Imitation of the RIC ? impossible to read a mint mark and therefore attribuate a RIC number. Informations of weight and diameter, die axis: 12h, from London Ancient Coins.



Antoninianus

CONCORDIA MILITVM

Reference :
Weight: 2.22 grs
Metal: Silver
Diameter: 20.00 mm
Scarcity: Common

Obverse

Reverse

Bust

IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS AVG

Radiate and draped bust of Diocletian right.

CONCORDIA MI - LITVM

Diocletian standing left, holding a parazonium with the left hand. Jupiter facing him on the right, naked, his cloak on his shoulder, holding a long scepter in his left hand and tending to Diocletian a nicephor globe.

Picture of type

Marks

no
XXI
Numéro : 1

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Imitation of the RIC 306. Informations of weight and diameter, die axis: 6h, from London Ancient Coins.



Argenteus

TRIB POT COS II / PIETAS

Reference :
Weight: 2.93 grs
Metal: Silver
Diameter: 16.00 mm
Scarcity: Common

Obverse

Reverse

Bust

DIOCLETI - ANVS AVG

Laureate bust of Diocletianus right.

TR – POT – COS - II / PIE - TAS

Pietas standing right, holding a globe with the left hand over an guarlanted altar and raising the right hand.

Picture of type

Photos from coin sold as modern fake by London Ancient Coins, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3221534, link to their website: https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/london_ancient_coins-89/ancient-coins/Default.aspx?#!/Home.

No official coin corresponds to this imitation. The beginning of the reverse legend is illegible, TRIB? Informations of weight and diameter, die axis: 12h, from London Ancient Coins.