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S3506 of Diocletian

Diocletian AR Argenteus. DIOCLETIANVS AVG, laureate head right / XCVI AQ, two lines in laurel wreath. RIC Vol VI 16a of Aquileia, RSC 548.

Lot No.1233A. 3.1grams. VF.

$ 425.

XCVI means 96 of these weigh one pound.

Rated R3 in RIC, and priced at 400 UK pounds in Sear [1984].

Diocletian was a great reformer. He reformed the government into the Tetrarchy system of two Caesars and two Augusti, and he reformed the coinage by eliminating the old Antoninianus and introduing the Argenteus and Follis. He ruled from 284 to 305 and then retired.