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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: DIOCLETIAN, AD 284-305. AE Antoninianus
Obverse: IMP C VAL DIOCLETIANVS AVG., his radiated and cuirassed bust right
Reverse: IOVI CONSERVAT, Jupiter, naked, standing left holding thunderbolt and sceptre, SXXIT in exergue.
Reference: RIC 222 Ticinum; Sear 3516. Grade: aVF/VF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Diocletian" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Diocletian see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.