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Lot 118. Constantius I Follis, Lugdunum mint, unpublished and extremely rare

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A run of very rare folles from the First Tetrarchy
Constantius I Follis, Lugdunum mint, unpublished and extremely rare

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Bidding closed (Sunday, November 18th, 19:59:00 CET)
Current time: Sunday, November 24th, 18:21:30 CET

Price realised: CHF 1'305.00 (10 bids)
Approx. EUR 1'401.82 / USD 1'460.42 / GBP 1'165.49

High bidder: Bidder 1

eAuction #10, Lot 118. Estimate: CHF 500.00

Constantius I Chlorus as Caesar (293-305 AD). AE Follis (27-28 mm, 11.0 g), Lugdunum (Lyons), c. 299/300 AD.
Obv. CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, Laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev. GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, right holding patera over altar, left cornucopiae; A in right field, PL in exergue.
RIC --; Bastien, Lyon -- (cf. 128: officina B).

Apparently unpublished and extremely rare. Nearly fully silvered and extremely fine.

This Follis is part of the obviously very small emission marked PL in exergue. No specimens for the Caesars Constantius I and Galerius were known to C.H.V. Sutherland in 1967 when compiling RIC VI. P. Bastien recorded one specimen only in his monumental corpus 'Le monnayage de l'atelier de Lyon' (1980) for the second officina, but no coin for officina A.



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