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Nummus - Licinius I SOLI INVICTO COMITI, C-S, Rome
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Rome |
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| Year | 315 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The SOLI INVICTO COMITI ("To the Unconquered Sun, Companion") coinage of Licinius I belongs to a politically charged moment: the years immediately following the Edict of Milan in 313, when Licinius and Constantine were nominally co-rulers but practically rivals. Licinius's continued promotion of Sol Invictus was not mere tradition — it was a deliberate ideological counter to Constantine's increasingly Christian-aligned propaganda. The Rome mint, operating under territory that shifted between their spheres of influence, was producing coinage for a man whose control of it was never entirely secure.
RIC VII 42 is a scarcer Rome mint issue within the type. The first serious rupture between the two emperors came in 316–317, making this 315 emission a product of the last nominally stable year of their alliance.