Nummus - Diocletianus SAC MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN, Rome

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.