Diocletian. AD 284-305. Æ Follis (24.5mm, 10.15 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, 2nd officina. Struck AD 302-mid 304. IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / GENIO POP VLI ROMANI, Genius standing left, nude but for chlamys draped over shoulders, holding cornucopia in left hand and sacrificing out of patera held in extended right hand over lighted altar to left; –|B//PLG. RIC VI 108a; Lyon 337. Dark brown patina and toned partial silvering, small delamination on reverse. Near EF.
Ex Rauceby Hoard, Lincolnshire (PAS ID LIN-F6D516; BM Ref 2016 T649).
