Ancient Coins and Antiquities

Roman Imperial Coinage, Diocletian, Follis, Abdication issue, Rome, 305, laureate and mantled bust right, holding olive branch and mappa, rev. Providentia and Quies, 10.88g (RIC 117a); Galerius, Follis, Rome, 300-1, laureate head right, rev. Moneta standing left, holding scales and cornucopia, q and thunderbolt in exergue, 11.71g (RIC 102b) [2]. Very fine, first scarce but smoothed in fields £80-£100

first Gorny & Mosch Auction 126 (Münich), 14 October 2003, lot 2764