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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Tetrarchy| > |Galerius| > SH90558
Galerius, 1 March 305 - 5 May 311 A.D.
|Galerius|, |Galerius,| |1| |March| |305| |-| |5| |May| |311| |A.D.|, The argenteus was a Roman silver coin minted from the time of Diocletian's coinage reform in 294 to c. 310. It was of similar weight and fineness as the denarius of the time of Nero. The coin was struck at a theoretical weight of 1/96th of a Roman pound (about 3 grams), as indicated by the Roman numeral XCVI on the reverse of some examples. Argenteus, meaning "of silver" in Latin, was first used in Pliny's Natural History in the phrase "argenteus nummus" (silver coin). The 4th-century historian Ammianus uses the same phrase, however there is no indication that this is the official name for a denomination.
SH90558. Silver argenteus, RIC VI Treveri 110b, RSC V 216b, SRCV IV 14260, VF, well centered, toned, 4th officina, Treveri (Trier, Germany) mint, weight 2.854g, maximum diameter 19.1mm, die axis 180o, c. 295 - 297 A.D.; obverse MAXIMIANVS NOB C, laureate head right; reverse VIRTVS MILITVM (courage of the soldiers), the four tetrarchs sacrificing over tripod in front of gate walled enclosure, with six gates, D (4th officina) in exergue; very rare (R4); SOLD










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Cahn, H.A. "Die Trierer Antoniniane der Tetrarchie" in SNR XXXVII (1955).
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von Schrötter, F. Die Münzen von Trier. 2. Teil. (Bonn 1908).
Weiller, R. Die Münzen von trier, 1. Teil. (Düsseldorf, 1988).
Zschucke, C.-F. Die römische Münzstätte Trier. (Trier, 1988).

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