6-2555

RIC VI, CARTHAGO 25a, DIOCLETIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Δ, HYBRID

  

OBVERSE

IMPDIOCLETIANVSPFAVG [IMP DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG]; head r., laur.

REVERSE

FELIXAD-V-ENTAVGGNN [FELIX ADVENT AVGG NN]; Africa stg. facing, head l., in long drapery with elephant-skin head-dress, r. holding standard, l. tusk; at feet to l., lion with captured bull. I in left field. PKΔ in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED OFFICINA - Δ, HYBRID. RIC lists for Diocletian officina A (p. 426). If we assume that officina Δ was assigned exclusively for Galerius Maximian, this specimen could be regarded as a hybrid: obverse CARTHAGO 25a with Galerius' reverse CARTHAGO 26b.

NOTES

Weight 7.71 g; diameter 29 mm. From the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Collection (inventory no. 06994).


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski