Antoninianus - Diocletianus IOVI CONSERVAT; eagle; Ticinum

Antoninianus - Diocletianus (IOVI CONSERVAT; eagle; Ticinum) - obverseAntoninianus - Diocletianus (IOVI CONSERVAT; eagle; Ticinum) - reverse

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Features

Issuer RomeRoman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Emperor Diocletian (Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus) (284-305)
Maximian Herculius (Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus) (286-305)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 285
Value Antoninianus (1)
Currency Antoninianus, Reform of Caracalla (AD 215 – 301)
Composition Billon (.0476 silver)
Weight 3.36 g
Diameter 22 mm
Thickness 1 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
119505
References RIC V.2# 222F,
Percy H Webb, Harold Mattingly, Edward Allen Sydenham; 1933. The Roman Imperial Coinage / Volume 5.2. Marcus Aurelius Probus – Maximian (AD 276–310). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
OCRE# ric.5.dio.222
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (http://numismatics.org/ocre/)

Obverse

Bust of Diocletian, right, radiate, cuirassed.

Script: Latin

Lettering: IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG

Translation:
Imperator, Caesar, Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus.
Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Gaius Valerius Diocletian, the pious, the fortunate, emperor (Augustus).

Reverse

Jupiter, standing left, holding thunderbolt in right hand and sceptre in left hand; at foot, eagle; mark of value in exergue flanked by mintmark.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
IOVI CONSERVAT
XXI

Translation:
Iovi Conservatori.
To Jupiter the Protector.

Edge

GrossAutomatically translated

Mint

Ticinum, modern-day Pavia, Italy

Comments

This antoninianus matches with the standards of the reform of Aurelianus (274), that is to say that its theoric weight is 1/84 of the libra (= 3,9 g) and that it was struck from billon made of twenty parts of copper per part of silver ; moreover, there is a specific officina letter which is engraved on the reverse to authentify the origin fo its struck. That is the reason why this antoninianus may be called an aurelianus.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (285) P T 1st officina
ND (285) S T 2nd officina
ND (285) T T 3rd officina
ND (285) V T 5th officina
ND (285) VI T 6th officina

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