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Antoninianus - Constantius I PIETAS AVGG
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 295-294 |
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| Currency | Antoninianus, Reform of Caracalla (AD 215 – 301) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Constantius I Chlorus, depicted in military attire — draped and cuirassed — stands facing right, holding a spear in his right hand while with his left he raises a kneeling turreted female figure, personifying a city or province, who holds a cornucopiae in her left arm. The composition is a well-known pietas type associating the Caesar's virtuous governance with the prosperity of the realm. The reverse legend PIETAS AVGG is distributed in the field, with the mint mark PTR (Treveri) in the exergue and the officina letter C in the left field. |
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Struck under the Tetrarchy, this issue dates to a period when Diocletian's monetary reforms were actively destabilizing the antoninianus as a denomination. The coin exists within a transitional moment: the argenteus was being reintroduced as a proper silver denomination, and the heavily debased antoninianus was effectively on its way out. That Constantius I issued under Diocletian's mint authority reflects the collegial coinage system of the Tetrarchy, where junior emperors — the Caesars — struck in their own names but under the senior emperors' organizational control.
RIC V.2 654C places this among a small group of issues attributable to the Lugdunum or Ticinum mint output for Constantius during his tenure as Caesar before his elevation to Augustus in 305.