UNLISTED REVERSE LEGEND. RIC lists for Diocletian only shorter legend VICTORIA SARMAT (HERACLEA 2). Note, however, that this coin could be HERACLEA 10a from unlisted officina Є (RIC lists only officina A).
General note from p. 521: "As noted above, the only type [of silver coins] found at Heraclea is the 'four princes at sacrifice' type which in so many mints elsewhere introduces the reformed silver. It falls into three main issues. The first is likely to have been that marked HЄ, i.e. from officina 5 only. This includes the reverse legends Providentia Augg, Victoria Sarmat and Sarmatica, and Virtus Militum. All four rulers are represented, but the surviving evidence shows no more than one ruler to each of the four variants; probably this was original patern".
Coin should be listed before HERACLEA 2.
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