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Coin of Diocletian

Roman (Artist)
297-298 CE (Late Antique)
bronze; struck

Obverse: Head of Diocletian, laureate, bearded, right; beaded border. Reverse: Genius of the Roman people, laureate, standing frontal, head turned to left, nude except for a cloak, holding a cornucopia in the left hand, pouring a libation from a patera (ceremonial dish) with the right; beaded border.

Inscription

[Inscription, Latin; obverse] IMP(erator) C(aesar) C(aius) VAL(arius) DIOCLETIANVS P(ius) F(elix) AVG(ustus) [Translation] Imperator Caesar Gaius Valerius Diocletianus, pious, lucky, Augustus [Inscription, Latin; reverse] GENIO POPVLI ROMANI; in exergue, H(eraclea) T(hracica) Δ [Translation] To the Genius of the Roman people; Thracian Heraclea, fourth mint office

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.

Art Trading Co. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1942, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5296]; Saidie A. May, Baltimore, 1942, by purchase [said to be from Hungary]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by gift.

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Geographies

Turkey, Marmara Ereglisi (Heraclea) (Place of Origin)

Measurements

Max diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm); axis: 12:00

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Saidie A. May, 1942

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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59.605

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