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Antoninianus - Maximianus PAXX AVGG, Pax
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 289-293 |
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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 | The personification of Pax (Peace) stands erect facing left in the central field, rendered in a stylized, elongated manner consistent with late third-century Roman die cutting. She holds an olive branch extended in her right hand and a transverse sceptre or long vertical staff in her left. The surrounding legend reads PAX AVGG, proclaiming the peace of the two Augusti (Maximianus and Diocletian). Mint marks in the exergue, which vary by emission, identify the Siscia officina responsible for striking, with recorded variants including B, C, S, and (rev. C). The reverse is framed by a beaded border, partially visible through the heavy green patination. |
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The PAXX AVGG reverse — a deliberate misspelling or scribal error for PAX AVGG — appears on a subset of Maximianus issues and has generated debate among specialists as to whether it reflects a die-cutter's mistake that slipped through workshop quality control or a deliberate regional variant. The Diocletianic mints of this period ran under considerable production pressure following the establishment of the Tetrarchic system, and engraving errors of this kind were not systematically corrected once a die entered rotation.
RIC V.2 398C distinguishes this specifically from the corrected legend type.