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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8144960, member: 84905&quot;]Great portrait!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m surprised about the dating to 294-295, though. Galerius was appointed Caesar on 21. May 293 and Constantius at around the same time (perhaps a couple of weeks later), while the monetary reforms apparently removed the antoninian already in 294.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Sutherland&#039;s article &quot;<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0075435800079636" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0075435800079636" rel="nofollow">Diocletian&#039;s reform of the coinage: a chronological note&quot;</a> the reforms included three elements:</p><ol> <li>&quot;<i>The raising of the weight of gold coins from a norm of about 70-72 to the Roman pound to one of 60 to the Roman pound. </i></li> <li><b><i>The abandonment of the silver-washed coin now known as the antoninianus and its replacement by a silver coin of the weight of Nero&#039;s reduced denarius, i.e. at a rate of 96 to the Roman pound. </i></b></li> <li><i>The introduction of the so-called follis—a copper coin of about 10 gm. in weight and struck at all &#039; reformed &#039; mints with something very near uniformity of types. The follis was accompanied by fractional denominations.</i></li> </ol><p><i>The timing of (2) is also discernible, though here again absolute precision is lacking. It is agreed that antoniniani of the pre-reform system, mint-marked PTR, continued to be struck at Treveri, from officinae which signed themselves c and D, down to A.D. 293-4. This date is gathered from the varied vota x types borne by coins of Diocletian, Herculius, and Galerius : the tenth vota are those of the senior partner in power, Diocletian, shared with his colleagues and reckoned as having been fulfilled for all four alike in 293-4 — during the tenth year after Diocletian&#039;s accession, in which the automatic renewal of vota would undoubtedly have been foreseen. Other such antoniniani, similarly celebrating the conclusion of vota x, are attributed to Lugdunum and Rome. Yet more antoniniani, bearing tribunician and consular dates, are known for the immediately preceding years. But no dated antoninianus of any kind can be found for the period after A.D. 293-4.</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on the above, I would think that all antoniniani in the names of Galerius and Constantius Chlorus were minted between May 293 (at the very earliest) and sometime in 294 (at the latest). Given the relative scarcity of antoniniani of the two Caesars, I think it is possible that the issues were small, perhaps in anticipation of the coin reform.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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