Antoninianus - Diocletianus IOVI VICTORI, Jupiter

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.