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Antoninianus - Diocletianus IOVI VICTORI, Jupiter
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 285-289 |
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| Value | Antoninianus (1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | IOVI VICTORI -/-//XXIB (Translation: To Jupiter, the victorious.) |
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Diocletian's early antoniniani occupy an awkward transitional moment: the coin itself was already a debased fiction by 285, nominally billon rather than true silver, yet this issue falls before his sweeping monetary reforms of 294 that introduced the argenteus and the post-reform radiate. What you have here predates the system Diocletian is famous for building.
RIC V.2 169A is a Ticinum mint product, part of a series connecting Diocletian's legitimacy directly to Jupiter — a pairing he formalized into the theological cornerstone of the Tetrarchy, with Diocletian as Jovius and Maximian as Herculius.