Nummus - Licinius I IOVI CONSERVATORI, Siscia

Siscia — modern Sisak in Croatia — was one of the most strategically critical mints in the Roman west, positioned to supply the Danubian legions. This issue falls squarely within the uneasy period of the Licinian-Constantinian settlement following the Edict of Milan in 313, when Licinius controlled the eastern half of the empire and maintained a deliberately conservative, Jupiter-focused religious program while Constantine was drifting toward Christian patronage. The ideological gap between the two emperors, visible in their coinage choices, would eventually contribute to open war by 316.