6-2317

RIC VI, ROMA, DIOCLETIAN & MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS, UNLISTED ISSUE [VICTORIAE AVGVSTORVM]

  

OBVERSE

IMPPDIOCLETIANOETMAXIMIANOAVGG [IMPP DIOCLETIANO ET MAXIMIANO AVGG]; busts of Diocletian and Maximian facing, laur., wearing imperial mantle, holding eagle-tipped sceptre.

REVERSE

VICTORIAEAVGVST-ORVM [VICTORIAE AVGVSTORVM]; Diocletian stg. r., in military dress, presenting globe to Maximian stg. l., also in military dress; both empereors are crowned by Victories. VOT X in exergue.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED ISSUE. Æ medallion not listed in RIC V/2. Probably belongs to the pre-reform coinage. Not listed in Gnecchi.

NOTES

Æ medallion. Weight 39.10 g; diameter 40-41 mm. From The Archaeological Museum in Zagreb (no. 37468). Cited after: Zdenka Dukat, Hermine Goericke Lukić, Tomislav Šeparović, Rimski medaljoni u hrvatskim muzejima, Split 2004, p. 36 [Thanks to the collaboration of Leszek Wąsik].


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski