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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Tetrarchy| > |Domitius Domitianus| > RB67062
Diocletian, 20 November 284 - 1 May 305 A.D., Struck For Diocletian by the Usurper Domitius Domitianus
|Domitius| |Domitianus|, |Diocletian,| |20| |November| |284| |-| |1| |May| |305| |A.D.,| |Struck| |For| |Diocletian| |by| |the| |Usurper| |Domitius| |Domitianus|, Lucius Domitius Domitianus was a Roman usurper against Diocletian, who seized power for a short time in Egypt. "The variety without star was issued under the usurper Domitius Domitianus who, like Carausius in Britain a few years before, was posing as a legitimate colleague of the official rulers." - David Sear in Roman Coins and Their Values IV.
RB67062. Billon follis (large), RIC VI Alexandria p. 663, 18a, SRCV IV 12801, Cohen VI 114, VF, excellent centering, 2nd officina, Alexandria mint, weight 8.183g, maximum diameter 28.1mm, die axis 0o, c. Aug 296 - Dec 297 A.D.; obverse IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head right; reverse GENIO POPVLI ROMANI (to the guardian spirit of the Roman People), Genius standing half left, head left, nude but kalathos on head and chlamys over shoulders and left arm, patera in right hand, cornucopia in left hand; eagle at feet left on left with hear right, wings open, and wreath in beak; B in right field, ALE in exergue; SOLD










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REFERENCES

Cohen, H. Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l'Empire Romain, Vol. 6: Macrianus to Diocletian & Maximianus. (Paris, 1886).
Sear, D. Roman Coins and Their Values, Vol. IV: The Tetrarchies and the Rise of the House of Constantine...Diocletian To Constantine I, AD 284 - 337. (London, 211).
Sutherland, R. & C. Carson. The Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol VI, From Diocletian's reform to the death of Maximinus. (London, 1967).

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