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Nummus - Diocletian IOVI CONS CAES, Jupiter, Alexandria
| Issuer | Alexandria Mint (Imperial Roman) |
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| Year | 304-305 |
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| Weight | 11.00 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Jupiter standing facing left, nude but for a chlamys draped over his left shoulder and arm, holding an eagle perched on a globus (orb) in his extended right hand and a long sceptre in his left hand. The figure stands on a ground line above the exergual mint mark ALE (Alexandria). The field is divided by the inscription S - P flanking the figure at mid-height, while the surrounding legend IOVI CO-NS CAES is distributed around the coin within a beaded border, invoking Jupiter as protector of the Caesar. |
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By 304–305, Diocletian's tetrarchic system was already under internal strain. This issue belongs to the final months before his abdication at Nicomedia in May 305 — the only voluntary resignation of a reigning Roman emperor in the history of the Principate and Dominate. The Alexandria mint was one of the most productive eastern workshops under the Diocletianic reform coinage, and RIC VI 41 is a relatively well-documented type within that output.
The IOVI CONS CAES reverse links the Caesar — in this case Galerius — to Jupiter as divine protector, a deliberate theological architecture Diocletian used to legitimize the entire tetrarchic hierarchy.