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Aureus - Maximianus Head right, P M TR P P P
| Uitgever | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Jaar | 284-294 |
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| Vorm | Round (irregular) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Laureate head of Emperor Maximian facing right, rendered with close-cropped hair and a short beard in the vigorous late Roman portrait style. The effigy displays strong, naturalistic facial modeling characteristic of the Tetrarchic period, with a laureate wreath secured by a ribbon visible at the nape of the neck. A hint of drapery is visible at the truncation of the bust. The encircling Latin legend runs clockwise around the periphery of the flan, framed by an inner beaded border. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Standing figure of Maximian, draped and cuirassed, presented in a frontal three-quarter stance turning to the left, his raised right hand extended in a gesture of adlocutio or imperial salutation, while his left hand grasps a transverse spear or hasta. Behind the emperor stand four military ensigns (signa), symbolising his authority over the Roman legions. The composition conveys imperial power and martial virtue, consistent with the propagandistic imagery of the Tetrarchic period. The abbreviated Latin legend is disposed around the field. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Maximianus was elevated to co-emperor by Diocletian in 285, first as Caesar and then Augustus, inaugurating the political arrangement that would eventually formalize into the Tetrarchy. This aureus belongs to the period before that system fully crystallized — when Diocletian was still testing the mechanics of shared rule. The mint attribution under RIC V.2 614(b) places it within the early joint coinage, where consistency of weight and purity was being deliberately restored after decades of debased silver had eroded public confidence in imperial metal.
Gold aurei of this period are appreciably scarcer than the contemporary radiates. Diocletian's monetary reforms, culminating in the edict of 301, were still a decade away.