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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clavdivs, post: 4938807, member: 93702&quot;]Can&#039;t beat that price - nice pick ups!! Sounds like a very fun lot.</p><p>It is amazing that you can find some very nice coins of this era for reasonable prices. I have really enjoyed collecting the large folles of the Tetrarchy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two folles of Diocletian.</p><p>The first is an inexpensive $10 pickup - its actually quite nice in hand with a lot of its silvering left. I&#039;d like to blame the silvering for the poor photograph - but its not to blame .. I am.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1186981[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3"><b>OBV:</b>IMP CCVAL DIOCLETIANVS PFAVG.</font></p><p><font size="3">Laureate bust of Diocletian facing right</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>REV:</b> GENIO POPVLI ROMANI</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse depicts Genius standing facing left holding patera and cornucopia.</font></p><p><font size="3">HTA in exergue. From Hereclea mint (26.5 mm)</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My next one was purchased a couple of months ago.. it was in the $50 range..</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1186982[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><font size="3">OBV: IMP CC VAL DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG</font></b></p><p><font size="3">Bust Laureate, right</font></p><p><b><font size="3">REV: GENIO POPVLI ROMANI</font></b></p><p><font size="3"><i>Genius </i>standing left, modius on head, naked except for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopiae.</font></p><p><font size="3">Cyzicus Mint Struck 295-299AD&nbsp; (quite large at 29mm)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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