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Aureus - Diocletian CONSVL IIII P P PROCOS, Cyzicus
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 290-292 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSVL IIII P P PROCOS (Translation: Consul for the fourth time, father of the nation, proconsul.) |
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Diocletian held his fourth consulship in 290 AD, the year this issue commemorates — a politically charged moment when he and Maximian were engineering the ideological framework that would become the Tetrarchy. Cyzicus, a strategically vital mint on the Propontis, was reactivated under Diocletian precisely to supply the eastern campaigns and administrative machinery he was rebuilding from the ground up.
RIC V.2 #286 is among the scarcer Cyzican gold issues of the reign. The PROCOS legend — proconsular title — used alongside the consular count reflects Diocletian's careful accumulation of constitutional titles rather than outright autocratic language.