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Nummus - Diocletianus SAC MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN, Rome
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 303 |
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| Value | Nummus / Follis (1/4) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IMP C DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG |
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This issue belongs to the Diocletianic monetary reform coinage struck in 303 AD, the same year Diocletian and Maximian celebrated their vicennalia in Rome — the first time Diocletian had visited the capital in his entire reign. The mint mark and reverse type directly reference the Sacred Mint of the City, a propagandistic assertion of monetary renewal following the introduction of the argenteus and the restructured nummus some years earlier.
RIC VI 111 is a Rome mint product of the first officina. The vicennalia games of 303 coincided with the most intense phase of the Great Persecution of Christians, issued by edict that very January.