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Coin of Diocletian

Roman (Artist)
284-305 CE (Late Antique)
bronze; struck

Obverse: Head of Diocletian, laureate, right; beaded border. Reverse: Genius standing frontal, looking left; pouring liquid from a patera (ceremonial dish) with the right hand, holding a cornucopia with the left; to left and right in field, K and H over V (control and officina marks).

Inscription

[Inscription, Latin; obverse] IMP(erator) C(aesar) DIOCLETIANVS AVG(ustus) [Translation] Imperator Caesar Diocletian Augustus [Inscription, Latin; reverse] GENIO POPVLI ROMANI; in exergue, ANT(iochia) [Translation] To the Genius of the Roman people; Antioch, eighth mint office

Provenance
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Harold Landon, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1943, by gift.

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Geographies

(Place of Origin) Roman Empire, Antioch ((not assigned))

Measurements

Max diam: 1 1/16 in. (2.73 cm); axis: 12:00

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. Harold Landon, 1943

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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59.634

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