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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: DIOCLETIAN, AD 284-305. Silvered Æ Follis.
Obverse: IMP. C. C. VAL. DIOCLETIANVS P. F. AVG., his laureated head right.
Reverse: GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius of the Roman people standing, facing left, wearing modius, holding patera and cornucopia. In exergue: SMNB.
Reference: RIC VI 29a Nicomedia mint. Grade: U.
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.