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Aureus - Maximianus IOVI CONSERVAT AVGG, Jupiter
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 284-294 |
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| Currency | Antoninianus, Reform of Caracalla (AD 215 – 301) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | IOVI CONSERVAT AVGG (Translation: Iovi Conservatori Duorum Augustorum. To Jupiter, protector of the two emperors (Augusti).) |
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This aureus falls within the Diocletianic reform period, before the currency overhaul of 294 AD that restructured the entire Roman monetary system. Maximianus, appointed co-emperor by Diocletian in 285, issued coinage invoking Jupiter as divine protector of both emperors — the AVGG plural genitive makes explicit that the protection extends to the imperial college, not a single ruler. The theology was deliberate policy: Diocletian took Jovius, Maximianus took Herculius, anchoring the Tetrarchic ideology in divine patronage before the full four-man system was formalized.
RIC V.2 492E places this among the earlier Lugdunum or Ticinum issues. Gold from this transitional window is substantially rarer than the post-294 reformed coinage.