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Nummus - Maximinus II as Caesar VIRTVS AVGG ET CAESS NN, Ticinium
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 305 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Mars or Virtus, depicted as a helmeted military figure, strides right in a dynamic pose, holding a spear diagonally across the body in the right hand and a globe surmounted by a Victory in the left hand. The figure is lightly clad in a short military tunic with a billowing chlamys, treading on a ground line above the exergue. The reverse legend VIRTVS AVGG ET CAESS NN encircles the design, invoking the collective martial virtue of the Emperors and Caesars of the Tetrarchy. In the exergue, the mintmark ST identifies this as the product of the second officina of the Ticinum mint. A pellet or control mark appears in the field to the left of the figure. |
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Maximinus II entered the tetrarchic system in 305 when Diocletian and Maximian simultaneously abdicated — the first voluntary abdication of a Roman emperor, engineered to make the four-man succession work on paper. Ticinium (modern Pavia) was one of the western mints activated under the tetrarchy specifically to supply the military frontiers of northern Italy, and this issue dates to the earliest months of Maximinus's tenure as Caesar under Galerius in the East.
The arrangement collapsed within years. By 313, Maximinus II was dead, the tetrarchy was fiction, and the Ticinium mint itself would pass through several contenders' hands before Constantine consolidated control.