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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 5412628, member: 44316"]I have an ancient imitation of a London follis of Diocletian.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1234584[/ATTACH] </p><p>26 mm. 4.87 grams. (Notice how light it is.)</p><p>IMP C DIOCLETIANVS PF AG [not AVG]</p><p>GENIO POPVLI ROMANI</p><p>I in left field and II in right field</p><p>Prototype is RIC VI London 6a</p><p>London does not ever have these field marks and has no field marks at all until "c. 310." </p><p>I think this coin is very fragile. The obverse from 8:00 to 9:30 shows where the edge crumbled and fractured off. </p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this coin in 1988 in London and took it to an RNS meeting where members immediately offered to buy it from me, but I didn't sell it. Now, after paying attention for 33 years since then, I can attest that imitations of GENIO POPVLI ROMANI types are rare, not only from London, but from anywhere (I have one from Alexandria).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 5412628, member: 44316"]I have an ancient imitation of a London follis of Diocletian. [ATTACH=full]1234584[/ATTACH] 26 mm. 4.87 grams. (Notice how light it is.) IMP C DIOCLETIANVS PF AG [not AVG] GENIO POPVLI ROMANI I in left field and II in right field Prototype is RIC VI London 6a London does not ever have these field marks and has no field marks at all until "c. 310." I think this coin is very fragile. The obverse from 8:00 to 9:30 shows where the edge crumbled and fractured off. I bought this coin in 1988 in London and took it to an RNS meeting where members immediately offered to buy it from me, but I didn't sell it. Now, after paying attention for 33 years since then, I can attest that imitations of GENIO POPVLI ROMANI types are rare, not only from London, but from anywhere (I have one from Alexandria).[/QUOTE]
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