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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 3123197, member: 83845"]Welcome to the dark side [USER=31685]@Lawtoad[/USER] .  For what it's worth I think you did well on that coin for that price. It's got an interesting place in the economy of the Roman recovery under Diocletian.  In case you don't have the attribution it is; Roman EmpireDiocletian (AD 284 - 305)AE Antoninianus (post-reform radiate), Heraclea mint, struck ca. AD 295 - 296Obv.: IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVGRev.: CONCORDIA MILITVMRef.: RIC VI 13 Here is a diagram I put together for a write up showing how the different denominations in use might have fit together. [ATTACH=full]795146[/ATTACH] Diocletian is one of my favorite emperors and I've been amassing a respectable amount of his coins lately <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Here's my Diocletian sole rule Antoninianus and a few others that I've had time to photograph and write up. [ATTACH=full]795143[/ATTACH]Roman EmpireDiocletian (AD 284-305)AE Antoninianus, Rome mint, struck ca. AD 285-286Dia.: 24.73 mmWt.: 3.55 gObv.: IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG Radiate bust of Diocletian rightRev.: IOVI CONSER-VAT AVG Jove standing right holding thunderbolt and scepter. XXIZ belowRef.: RIC V:II 161Write up:<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diocletian-two-interesting-coins-and-a-legacy-of-reform.307405/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diocletian-two-interesting-coins-and-a-legacy-of-reform.307405/">Diocletian: Two Interesting Coins and a Legacy of Reform</a> [ATTACH=full]795144[/ATTACH]Roman EmpireDiocletian (AD 284-305)AE Follis (silvered), Ticinum mint, struck ca. AD 269-267Dia.: 31 mmWt.: 8.63 gObv.: IMP DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG Laureate head of Diocletian rightRev.: GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI Genius standing right holding patera and cornucopia. DT. Below. Star in left fieldRef.: RIC VI 33Write up:<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diocletian-two-interesting-coins-and-a-legacy-of-reform.307405/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diocletian-two-interesting-coins-and-a-legacy-of-reform.307405/">Diocletian: Two Interesting Coins and a Legacy of Reform</a> [ATTACH=full]795145[/ATTACH]Roman EmpireDiocletian, AD 284-305AE Follis, Lugdunum Mint, 1st officina, struck ca. AD 295Dia.: 28 mmWt.: 8.5 gObv.: IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG; Laureate bust rightRev.: GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI: Genius standing left holding patera and cornucopia /LA in exergueRef.: RIC VI 2a, Lugdunum Group I, Class IIEx Jamesicus CollectionWrite up:<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diocletian-one-of-the-earliest-post-reform-coins-from-lugdunum.311422" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diocletian-one-of-the-earliest-post-reform-coins-from-lugdunum.311422">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diocletian-one-of-the-earliest-post-reform-coins-from-lugdunum.311422</a>[/QUOTE]

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