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Aureus - Maximianus CONSVL III P P PROCONSVL
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 290-293 |
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| Weight | 5.4 g |
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| Reverse description | A helmeted and draped female figure, identified as Roma or a personification of imperial virtus, standing left upon a low base or platform, her head crowned with a helmet. She extends her right hand forward offering a globe, while her left hand rests at her side or holds a sceptre. The figure is rendered in a hieratic, frontal style consistent with late third-century Roman coinage. The legend CONSVL III PP PROCOS encircles the type, with CONSVL III to the left and PP PROCOS to the right, and a mintmark visible in the exergue. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSVL III P P PROCONSVL (Translation: Consul Tertium, Pater Patriae, Proconsul. Consul for the third time, father of the nation, proconsul.) |
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Maximianus held his third consulship in 290 AD alongside Diocletian, a carefully choreographed display of collegial parity between the two Augusti. The PROCONSVL title appearing alongside it is a constitutional curiosity — the proconsular imperium was technically incompatible with the consulship under the old Republican formula, but the tetrarchic court was less interested in legal precision than in accumulating honorifics that broadcast supreme authority.
RIC V.2 609 is attributed to the period before the formal proclamation of the Tetrarchy in 293, when the dyarchy was still the operative structure.