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Antoninianus - Maximianus CONSERVATOR AVGG
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 289-290 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP C M A VAL MAXIMIANVS P AVG (Translation: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus Pius Augustus. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus, the pious, emperor (Augustus).) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Maximianus issued coins under the CONSERVATOR AVGG legend to reinforce the ideological framework of the new Tetrarchic system — specifically the fiction of harmonious co-rule between himself and Diocletian. The plural AVGG (Augusti) was a deliberate shorthand for both emperors simultaneously, a numismatic device that dressed political necessity in the language of divine protection. Diocletian had elevated Maximianus to co-Augustus in 286, less than a year after naming him Caesar, an unusually rapid promotion driven by the immediate military crises on the Rhine and in Britain under the usurper Carausius.
RIC V.2 #581F places this among the Lugdunum output of the period.