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<p>[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2936675, member: 14873"]<font face="Times New Roman">Very early Diocletian follis circa. AD 295</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman">RIC Volume VI, Lugdunum, Group I, (ii), Diocletian, No. 2a</font></b></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://jp29.org/lug2ao1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/lug2ar1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG</b> .................. <b>GENIO POP - VLI ROMANI</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>LA</b> in reverse exergue.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Lugdunum mint follis (marked LA) referred to by Sutherland in his introductory text to the Londinium section of RIC Volume VI.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">The reverse on this coin (and on most London mint coins) depicts a representation of the Genius of the Roman People standing, facing left, head surmounted by a modius, naked except for a chlamys over the left shoulder, holding a patera in the right hand and cradling a cornucopia in the left arm.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">8.5 gm.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2936675, member: 14873"][FONT=Times New Roman]Very early Diocletian follis circa. AD 295 [/FONT] [B][FONT=Times New Roman]RIC Volume VI, Lugdunum, Group I, (ii), Diocletian, No. 2a[/FONT][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman] [IMG]http://jp29.org/lug2ao1.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://jp29.org/lug2ar1.jpg[/IMG] [B]IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG[/B] .................. [B]GENIO POP - VLI ROMANI[/B] [B]LA[/B] in reverse exergue. Lugdunum mint follis (marked LA) referred to by Sutherland in his introductory text to the Londinium section of RIC Volume VI. The reverse on this coin (and on most London mint coins) depicts a representation of the Genius of the Roman People standing, facing left, head surmounted by a modius, naked except for a chlamys over the left shoulder, holding a patera in the right hand and cradling a cornucopia in the left arm. 8.5 gm. [/FONT][/QUOTE]
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