follis
Sign in to savethumb|An AE1 follis of Diocletian, 27 mm
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Roman currency
- Country
- Ancient Rome
- Image
- DiocletianusFollis.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Follis
- Commons gallery
- Follis
- time period
- Middle Ages
- different from
- falus
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Roman coin
- Discoveries
- Byzantine coin
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|An AE1 follis of Diocletian, 27 mm
The follis (plural folles; , ) is both a general term for specific types of bronze coinage that circulated during the Late Roman Empire and for bronze coinage of the Byzantine Empire worth 40 nummi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “follis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.