Antoninianus - Maximianus VIRTVS AVGG, Hercules

Maximianus issued heavily under the Herculian identity he adopted as junior Augustus during Diocletian's Tetrarchy — the two emperors styled themselves Jovius and Herculius respectively, a deliberate theological architecture meant to anchor imperial authority in divine lineage rather than military usurpation alone. The VIRTVS AVGG legend ties the issue directly to the shared virtue propaganda of the early Tetrarchic system, before the introduction of the reformed argenteus in 294 made the antoninianus itself largely obsolete.

RIC V.2 453F places this among the final antoniniani struck at Cyzicus.