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AR19 - Diocletian L Γ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 294-295 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and cuirassed bust of Galerius facing right, rendered in three-quarter front view, with the emperor depicted in military attire. The legend ΓΑΛ ΜΑΞΙΜΙΑΝΟϹ Κ runs around the periphery in Greek characters, identifying the Caesar Galerius Maximianus. The flan is irregular and the coin shows typical late Roman Alexandrian die work, with a beaded border encircling the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΓΑΛ ΜΑΞΙΜΙΑΝΟϹ Κ |
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By Year 10 of Diocletian's reign (294–295 AD), the Alexandrian mint was operating under the monetary reforms that would culminate in the edict on coinage issued around 296–297. This piece, struck in the penultimate years before that overhaul, belongs to a transitional phase when billon fineness had already collapsed so severely that the coins were effectively bronze with a thin surface wash of silver. The L Γ regnal year formula — a distinctly Alexandrian dating convention inherited from Ptolemaic practice — places it precisely within that narrow window before the reform coinage displaced the old tetradrachm tradition entirely.