RIC VI, SERDICA 1a, DIOCLETIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Γ

OBVERSE	DIOCLETI-ANVSAVG [DIOCLETIANVS AVG]; head r., laur.
REVERSE	VIRTVS-MILITVM [VIRTVS MILITVM]; Three-turreted campgate, open, without doors. •SM•SDΓ• in exergue.
NOT IN RIC	UNLISTED OFFICINA - Γ. RIC lists officinae Α, Β and Δ (p. 491). General note about this issue from p. 486: "Struck from five officinae (though not all of these are now well evidenced) and at a weight of c. 3.3 gm., this was in the names of all four rulers: the reverse type was the late three-turreted camp-gate (open and without doors) which had already appeared at Thessalonica, with legend Virtus Militum. The coins are now of considerable rarity". Listed in: Georges Gautier, "Le monnayage d'argent de Serdica après la réforme de Dioclétien", Revue Numismatique 1991, XXXIII, p. 106, no. 6-7. See also: SERDICA 1a, DIOCLETIAN, UNLISTED OFFICINA Є

NOTES

Argenteus. Weight 3.20 g. Sold on Gorny & Mosch auction in March 2010 for EUR 1,800. Other specimens: - specimen offered on Classical Numismatic Group auction in June 2005 for $1,000; weight 3.39 g [click for picture]; - specimen sold on Gorny & Mosch auction in October 2005 for $681; sold on Classical Numismatic Group auction in June 2006 for $525; weight 3.39 g [click for picture]; - specimen offered on Freeman & Sear site in spring 2004 for $1,500; weight 3.33 g; obv. legend break T-I [click for picture]; - specimen sold on Classical Numismatic Group auction in September 2011 for $1,000; weight 3.37 g; diameter 21 mm [click for picture]; - specimen from Gautier's article quoted above (plate IX, no. 6); weight 3.48 g; obv. legend break T-I [click for picture]; - specimen from Gautier's article quoted above (plate IX, no. 7); weight 3.07 g [click for picture].