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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 26327085, member: 10613&quot;]I just got this &quot;mule&quot; or hybrid.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1680705[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian</p><p>A.D. 300- 301</p><p>28mm&nbsp; &nbsp; 11.4g</p><p>IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG; laureate head right.</p><p>SACRA MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS N N; Moneta standing left with scales &amp; cornucopiae.</p><p>In ex. Q thunderbolt</p><p>cf. RIC VI Rome 100a</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin from Rome has a mintmark of Q thunderbolt; but the Rome mint at this time, according to Roman Imperial Coinage VI, assigned mints on seniority—</p><p><br /></p><p>First Tetrarchy workshop assignment at Rome</p><p><br /></p><p>Prima (1st)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Diocletian</p><p><br /></p><p>Secunda (2nd)&nbsp; &nbsp; Maximianus</p><p><br /></p><p>Tertia (3rd)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Constantius I</p><p><br /></p><p>Quarta (4th)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Galerius</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the footnotes, RIC notes a coin of Maximianus with T; when it should be S (for secunda), and calls it a &quot;hybrid ?&quot; So, apparently, a mint employee accidentally paired a reverse for Galerius with an obverse of Diocletian; which resulted in this hybrid or mule.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also interesting is the thunderbolt in the mintmark. Diocletian claimed descent from Jupiter, so a thunderbolt was used to remind everyone of his godly lineage. Maximianus was descended from Hercules, so this series also used a club.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1680706[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Maximianus</p><p>A.D. 300- 301</p><p>Ӕ follis&nbsp;&nbsp; 28mm&nbsp;&nbsp; 6.9gm</p><p>IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG; laureate head right.</p><p>SACRA MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN, Moneta standing left with scales &amp; cornucopiae.</p><p>In ex. S club</p><p>RIC VI Rome 100b</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse legend SAC MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN (and all the variations) roughly translates as &quot;The sacred money of the city of our rulers&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This type was struck around the same time as the Edict on Maximum Prices issued by Diocletian in A.D. 301 and this sacred money coin may have been a reference to this edict (RIC gives dates of 300-301 for the coinage; but this was a short series possibly only struck in 301). This attempt to regulate inflation was (surprise) a failure though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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