follis / Bronze

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.08.2418
Other Number: 05457
Type of Number: PV_NUMBER
Object Name: follis
Lot: Dattari, Giannino
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Coins
Materials: Bronze
Weight: 10.5
Quantity: 1
Inscribed: no
Artifact Obverse Inscription: IMPCDIOCLETIANVSPFAVG
Artifact Reverse Inscription: GENIOPOPV L IROMANI; in field right, S with crescent above; in ex., ANT
Verbatim Date: c. 297 AD
Denomination: follis
Authority: Diocletian
Mint: Antioch
Countermark: no
Coin Obverse Description: Head of Diocletian right, laureate
Coin Obverse Inscription: IMPCDIOCLETIANVSPFAVG
Coin Reverse Description: Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder; right hand holds patera from which liquor flows; left arm holds cornucopiae
Inscription Obverse Text: IMPCDIOCLETIANVSPFAVG
Publication Title: Description historique des monnaies frappees sous L'Empire romain communément appelées médailles impériales, deuxieme edition, Vol. 1 : de Pompée à Domitien (67 BC - AD 96); Description historique des monnaies frappees sous L'Empire romain communément appelées médailles impériales, deuxieme edition, Vol. 2: de Nerva à Antonin (AD 96 - 161); Description historique des monnaies frappees sous L'Empire romain communément appelées médailles impériales, deuxieme edition, Vol. 3: de Marc Aurèle à Albin (AD 161 - 197); Description historique des monnaies frappees sous L'Empire romain communément appelées médailles impériales, deuxieme edition, Vol. 4: de Septime Sévère à Maxime (AD 193 - 238); Description historique des monnaies frappees sous L'Empire romain communément appelées médailles impériales, deuxieme edition, Vol. 5: de Gordien Ier à Valérien II (AD 238 - 268); Description historique des monnaies frappees sous L'Empire romain communément appelées médailles impériales, deuxieme edition, Vol. 6: de Postume à Maximien Hercule (c. AD 258 - 310); Description historique des monnaies frappees sous L'Empire romain communément appelées médailles impériales, deuxieme edition, Vol. 7: de Carausius à Constance II (c. AD 287 - 361 ); Description historique des monnaies frappees sous L'Empire romain communément appelées médailles impériales, deuxieme edition, Vol. 8: de Népotien à Romulus Augustule (c. AD 350 - 475); Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. VI: From Diocletian's Reform (A.D. 294) to the Death of Maximinus (A.D. 313)
Publication Author: Cohen, Henry; Cohen, Henry and Feuardent, Gaston L.; Sutherland, C.H.V. (ed. by C.H.V. Sutherland and R.A.G. Carson)
Publication Year: 1955 (reprint); 1955; 1967
Type Category: Numismatic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.08.2418
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.08.2418/0000_08_2418

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