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Fraction - Galerius CONCORDIA MILITVM, Strike as Caesar under Maximianus, Cyzicus
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 295-299 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Galerius facing right, portrayed in the Tetrarchic style with a pronounced radiate crown of seven rays. The effigy displays a short-cropped beard consistent with the iconographic conventions of the period, with the cuirass and paludamentum rendered in low relief. The surrounding field is bounded by a beaded border, and the obverse legend runs clockwise from the lower left around the periphery of the coin. |
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| Mintage | ND (295-299) KA - 1st officina - ND (295-299) KB - 2nd officina - ND (295-299) KΓ - 3rd officina - ND (295-299) KΔ - 4th officina - |
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Galerius received the title of Caesar in 293 AD under Diocletian's newly formalized Tetrarchy, technically subordinate to Maximianus as his Augustus in the West — though in practice the pairing was administrative rather than geographic. The CONCORDIA MILITVM reverse type was not decorative ideology; it was a deliberate propaganda response to the disciplinary fractures within a military that had spent the better part of the third century making and unmaking emperors. Cyzicus, one of the most productive eastern mints reactivated under Diocletian's monetary reforms, struck this fractional issue as part of the broader post-294 currency overhaul that attempted to stabilize bronze denominations across the empire.