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Æ25 - Valerian and Gallienus PROVINCIA DACIA, AN VI
| Issuer | Roman Provincial Mint |
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| Year | 253-254 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Provincia Dacia stands facing, head turned to the left, holding an upright sword in her right hand and two military standards (vexilla) in her left. To the left of the central figure stands an eagle with spread wings, and to the right crouches a lion, both emblems of the Dacian legions. The Latin legend PROVINCIA DACIA and the regnal year AN VI are inscribed in the field, referencing the sixth year of the provincial era. |
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Provincia Dacia was an administrative invention of the Roman provincial coinage system — a fictional consolidated entity representing the three Dacian provinces (Dacia Apulensis, Porolissensis, and Malvensis) that never actually unified under that name in administrative practice. The mint struck in the names of co-emperors Valerian and Gallienus following their joint acclamation in 253, using a local era dating (AN VI here counting from the provincia's notional foundation year) that makes precise absolute dating possible — a rare convenience in provincial numismatics.
By year VI the Danubian frontier was under sustained Gothic pressure, and Dacia itself would be effectively abandoned within two decades.