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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: DIOCLETIAN, AD 284-305. AE Follis (26/27mm).
Obverse: IMP. C. DIOCLETIANVS P. F. AVG. His laureated head to the right.
Reverse: GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius of the Roman people, half naked, wearing modius, standing to the left holding cornucopia and patera. In field S B.
Reference: RIC VI 79a Siscia mint. Grade: aVF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Diocletian" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Diocletian see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.