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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: DIOCLETIAN, AD 284-305. AE Follis (27.83/28.10mm).
Obverse: IMP. C. C. VAL. DIOCLETIANVS P. F. AVG. His laureated head to the right.
Reverse: GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius of the Roman People, half naked, wearing modius and holding cornucopia and patera. K and G in exergue.
Reference: RIC VI 10 Cyzicus mint. Grade: U/chEF.
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.