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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3123186, member: 75937&quot;]Welcome to the dark side, [USER=31685]@Lawtoad[/USER] ! You&#039;ll enjoy it here. The ancients folks are a friendly bunch.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like your coin. It&#039;s what we call a &quot;post-reform radiate&quot; because Diocletian is wearing a radiate (spiky) crown and it was minted after Diocletian&#039;s reform of the coinage system in the Roman empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one that is nearly identical. Same issue, from the same mint, but made at a different officina (workshop) at the mint. Our coins are from the Heraclea mint. Heraclea was the Roman name for the ancient Greek city of Perinthos, now Marmara Ereglisi in the European part of Turkey, west of Istanbul and along the northern coast of the Sea of Marmara. The Roman mint was established by Diocletian shortly before his reform and was in use until the times of Theodosius II.</p><p><br /></p><p>The H between the figures of the emperor and Jupiter on the reverse is the mintmark for Heraclea on this issue. The Δ is the officina mark and indicates the fourth officina at the mint (delta being the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet). Mine was produced in the third officina at the mint and hence bears the HΓ marking between the figures.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795135[/ATTACH]</p><p>Diocletian, AD 284-304.</p><p>Roman Æ post-reform radiate, 1.74 g, 19.5 mm, 5h.</p><p>Heraclea, AD 296-298.</p><p>Obv: IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front.</p><p>Rev: CONCORDIA MILI-TVM, Diocletian standing right in military dress, receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter leaning on scepter; ΗΓ in lower center.</p><p>Refs: RIC 13 or 21; Cohen 34; RCV 12833.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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