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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8193451, member: 110350&quot;]A beautiful coin and a great write-up!&nbsp; Do we know that the argenteus was actually called the &quot;argenteus,&quot; and that the &quot;aureliani&quot; of Aurelian were actually called that as well?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my one and only argenteus -- a nice example, I think, except for the small areas of discoloration on the obverse around Diocletian&#039;s nose and the top of his head:</p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian, AR Argenteus, ca. AD 295, Heraclea Mint (1st Officina). Obv. Laureate head right, DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG / Rev. The four tetrarchs [the Augusti Diocletian and Maximian, and the Caesars Constantius Chlorus and Galerius], draped, sacrificing over a tripod altar, two of them on each side, before military camp gate with six turrets (four in front and two in rear), VICTORIA-SARMAT [referring to victories over the Sarmatians*]; in exergue, H A [Heraclea, 1st Officina]. RIC VI Heraclea 6 [see <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.her.6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.her.6" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.her.6</a>], RSC V Diocletian 488j, Sear RCV IV 12612. <i>Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney, Oct. 2021. Ex. Ira &amp; Larry Goldberg Auction 90, 2 Feb. 2016, Lot 3274</i>. 19 mm., 2.70 g.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1434999[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*See Stephen Williams, <i>Diocletian and the Roman Recovery</i> (Routledge, 2000) at p. 76 (preview at Google Books): “In 294 Diocletian launced a fresh offensive against the main body of the Sarmatians. . . . By the latter half of 294 they [the Sarmatians] had sustained such a defeat that they ceased to be a threat for many more years. Sarmatian warriors were taken into the Roman armies in large numbers, either as mercenaries or under treaty, and later fought well under Galerius against the Persians.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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