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Aureus - Diocletianus CONSVL IIII P P PROCOS
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 290-292 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | DIOCLETIANVS AVGVSTVS (Translation: Diocletianus Augustus. Emperor (Augustus) Diocletian.) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Diocletian held his fourth consulship in 290 AD, the year this aureus was struck — a moment when he was consolidating the tetrarchic system but had not yet formally proclaimed it. The title PROCOS, proconsular, is technically anomalous for a reigning emperor and reflects a deliberate legal fiction the imperial chancery used to frame absolute power within republican constitutional forms.
RIC V.2 285 is a scarce type. Diocletian's aurei generally survive in lower numbers than his prolific antoninianus output, and the consulship series in gold is among the thinner represented.