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Diocletian GENIO from Alexandria with unusual engraving

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Victor:
Unusual line at bottom of neck… awkward depiction of neck muscle...the tie resting on neck is a little off also.


Diocletian
A.D. 301
Ӕ follis   27mm     8.7g
IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG; laureate head right.
GENIO POPVLI ROMANI; Genius standing left, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder & modius on head, right holding patera, left cornucopiae; XX-I across fields, Γ in right.
In ex. ALE
RIC VI Alexandria 32a


the second pic below is for a comparison with the normal neck

Lech Stępniewski:
Maybe something happened with obverse die?

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