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Nummus - Diocletian post-abdication, Londinium
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Londinium |
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| Year | 305-307 |
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| Value | Nummus / Follis (1/4) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (305-307) |
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Diocletian abdicated on May 1, 305 AD — the first Roman emperor to do so voluntarily — retiring to his palace at Split rather than dying in office or by violence. Londinium continued striking in his name as a consecrated, deified figure, a bureaucratic acknowledgment of his new status rather than any ongoing authority.
RIC VI 77a places this issue within the early London mint's output under Constantius I, whose control of Britain made the western mints briefly pivotal before his death at Eboracum in 306 triggered the entire succession crisis.