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Coin Detail
ID:
842000
Type:
Roman Imperial
Issuer:
Diocletian
Date Ruled:
AD 284-305
Metal:
Bronze
Denomination:
Follis
Struck / Cast:
struck
Date Struck:
AD 305-307
Diameter:
27 mm
Weight:
8.96 g
Die Axis:
12 h
Obverse Legend:
D N DIOCLETIANO BAEATISSIMO SEN AVG
Obverse Description:
Laureated bust right, in imperial mantle, right hand holding an olive branch, left a mappa.
Reverse Legend:
PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES AVGG
Reverse Description:
Providentia standing right, extending right hand to Quies standing left, right hand holding branch (up), and left leaning on sceptre
Exergue:
PTR
Mint Mark:
PTR/ S in left field/ F in right field/ KS in center field
Mint:
Cyzicus (incorrectly attributed to Trier)
Primary Reference:
RIC unlisted
Photograph Credit:
Classical Numismatic Group
Source:
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=139470
Notes:
(1) This obverse inscription is unrecorded in RIC with the KS field mark. (2) This is perhaps one of the most unusual issues in the entire follis series. It is nearly always attributed to Trier (Treveri), but a comparison of portrait styles and an examination of follis hoards reveals that this issue was not struck in Trier but in Cyzicus. Two officinae struck this issue, and the KS in the field between the two figures is actually the mintmark, not the PTR. A look at the coins of Cyzicus (RIC 22-23) shows that the same two officinae struck this issue without the PTR also. The Senior Augustus issues of Diocletian and Maximianus were struck at every mint currently in operation. Apparently, the first coins of this type were prepared at Trier and examples were sent to the various mints for the individual mints to copy. At Cyzicus, the die engravers copied everything, including the Trier mintmark and put their own mintmark in the field. Eventually someone soon realized the mistake and new dies were prepared with the mintmark in its proper location.
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