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RIC VI Heraclea 17a

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RIC VI Heraclea 17a, AE1, Bronze, struck at Heraclea, 296–297 AD. Obverse: head of diocletian, laureate, right. Reverse: genius, wearing modius, nude, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing left, pouring liquid from patera in right hand and holding cornucopiae in left hand. Weight about 10.3 g, diameter 27.7 mm.
obverse RIC VI Heraclea 17a
obverse: Head of Diocletian, laureate, right
reverse RIC VI Heraclea 17a
reverse: Genius, wearing modius, nude, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing left, pouring liquid from patera in right hand and holding cornucopiae in left hand
mint Heraclea weight 10.29g (10)
ruler Diocletian diameter ⌀27.7 (4)
denomination AE1 axis 9↕ (4)
material Bronze technique Struck
country Roman Empire dataset OCRE — Online Coins of the Roman Empire
ODC-ODbL
obverse

Head of Diocletian, laureate, right

IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG
reverse

Genius, wearing modius, nude, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing left, pouring liquid from patera in right hand and holding cornucopiae in left hand

GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI or GENIO POPV-L-I ROMANI
specimens (12)
KENOM 10.37g 11↕
British Museum 11.19g
British Museum (RIC VI)
British Museum 11.22g
British Museum (RIC VI)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 11.76g ⌀28.0
British Museum 7.74g
British Museum (RIC VI)
British Museum 9.32g
British Museum (RIC VI)
British Museum 10.77g
British Museum (RIC VI)

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RIC VI Heraclea 17a (ric.6.her.17a), 296–297 AD. Corpus Apertum Nummorum Orbis Antiqui (CANOA). https://canoanumis.org/coins/ric-vi-heraclea-17a/ (accessed: 2026-10-08). Full citation guidance: How to cite CANOA

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