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Quinarius Aureus - Maximianus IOVI CONSERVAT AVGG, Jupiter
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 284-294 |
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| Value | Gold Quinarius (25⁄4) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The quinarius aureus — half the weight of a standard aureus — saw renewed use under the Tetrarchy as a practical denomination for donatives and military payments where full aurei were too valuable for convenient distribution. Maximianus issued prolifically during the joint reign with Diocletian, and the IOVI CONSERVAT AVGG reverse type was a deliberate theological statement: Diocletian had appropriated Jupiter as his divine patron, with Maximianus assigned Hercules, yet both emperors shared the Jovian protective formula on coinage to project ideological unity.
RIC V.2 501D places this piece among a tight cluster of antoninianus-era transitional types before Diocletian's currency reforms of 294 fundamentally restructured the gold coinage.