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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Tetrarchy| > |Diocletian| > RB93171
Diocletian, 20 November 284 - 1 May 305 A.D.
|Diocletian|, |Diocletian,| |20| |November| |284| |-| |1| |May| |305| |A.D.|, In Roman religion, every man has a genius, a presiding spirit. In De Die Natali, Censorinus says, from the moment we are born, we live under the guard and tutelage of Genius. Cities, organizations, and peoples also had a genius. On coins, we find inscriptions to the Genius of the Army, of the Senate, of the Emperor, etc. The legend GENIO POPVLI ROMANI dedicates this coin to the Genius of the Roman People. Genius' image is of a man with a cloak half covering the shoulders leaving the rest of his body naked, holding a cornucopia in one hand, and a simpulum or a patera in the other.
RB93171. Billon follis (large), RIC VI Treveri 576a, Cohen VI 111, SRCV IV 12763, Hunter V -, Choice aEF, well centered, nice portrait, minor encrustations, 1st officina, Treveri (Trier, Germany) mint, weight 8.471g, maximum diameter 27.7mm, die axis 180o, c. 303 - 1 May 305 A.D.; obverse IMP DIOCLETIANVS P AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right; reverse GENIO POPVLI ROMANI (to the guardian spirit of the Roman People), Genius standing half left, nude but for chlamys over shoulders and left arm, kalathos on head, pouring libations from patera in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, S - F across field, PTR in exergue; from the Errett Bishop Collection; SOLD











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