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Nummus - Claudius II Posthumous, Thessalonica
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 317-318 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | REQVIES OPTIMORVM MERITORVM |
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Claudius II died of plague in 270 AD, nearly fifty years before this coin was struck. The posthumous deification issues were revived under Constantine I as deliberate dynastic propaganda — Constantine claimed descent from Claudius II, and the consecration coinage produced at Thessalonica and other mints in 317–318 was part of a calculated effort to root his legitimacy in a beloved soldier-emperor rather than in Diocletian's tetrarchic system he had dismantled.
Thessalonica had only recently been brought firmly under Constantinian control following the defeat of Licinius's co-emperor Valens in 314.