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Antoninianus - Diocletianus VIRTVTI AVGG, Hercules
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 289-294 |
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| Diameter | 21.5 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The VIRTVTI AVGG type associates Diocletian explicitly with Hercules — a deliberate political pairing that reflected the tetrarchic theology taking shape in the late 280s, where Diocletian aligned himself with Jupiter and his co-emperor Maximian with Hercules. Issuing a coin invoking Herculean virtue under his own name was a calculated assertion of shared divine authority rather than a subordinate one.
RIC V.2 103A places this among the Lugdunum or eastern mint issues of the pre-tetrarchic consolidation period, before the 293 AD reorganization fully standardized output across the empire's mints.