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Argenteus - Constantius I PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG, Nicomedia
| Uitgever | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Jaar | 295 |
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| Valuta | Argenteus, Reform of Diocletian (AD 293/301 – 310/324) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Laureate and bearded bust of Constantius I facing right, depicted with short hair and wearing a paludamentum (military cloak) fastened at the shoulder. The effigy is rendered in the Tetrarchic style, characterized by a stocky, powerful neck and strong facial features typical of the period's official portraiture. The circumferential legend reads CONSTANTIVS CAESAR, distributed around the periphery of the coin within a beaded border. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | CONSTANTIVS CAESAR |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Constantius I struck this argenteus at Nicomedia during the height of the First Tetrarchy, the administrative experiment Diocletian had formalized just years earlier dividing imperial rule between two Augusti and two Caesares. The PROVIDENTIAE AVGG reverse type — referencing the foresight of the Augusti — was a deliberate piece of propaganda reinforcing that the four-man college acted with unified divine purpose, even as each ruler governed a separate region of the empire.
The argenteus itself was Diocletian's attempt to revive a credible silver coinage after decades of debased antoniniani. Struck to roughly the weight of the old denarius, it survived in widespread use for only a generation before inflationary pressure made it unviable.