XCVI

Roman numeral = 96.


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XCVI, within a laurel wreath; sometimes with exergue letters AQ (Aquileia) or T (Taracone); on silver coins of Diocletian, Constantine the Great (as |Ceasar|), from Banduri, du Masee Farnese.

XCVI in the exergue of a silver coin of Constantine I (|Caesar|), with the legend CONSERVATOR KART SVAE.

These coins were issued by Diocletian about AD 292 as "96 pieces to the pound of silver." This has been saisfactorily established by Marchant, Cavedoni, Pinder and Friedlander, Mommsen, Blancas, and de Witte (Mommsen, Mon. Rom. vol |iii| p 74; vol |iv| p 99).

In Cohen's 1st edition (Med. Imp. vol |v| p 387) he argues against this interpretation because there are coins of Diocletian in the Cabinet of Vienna with the figures XCVIIT, which have been explained by Cavedoni (Ann. Arch. 1860 p 442) as XCVI ITalicam [libram]. The errata of Cohen (Suppl. vol |vi| p 627 point out, however, that Eckhel and Banduri both misread these coins, a fact, as regards the Vienna one, confirmed by the late M. Arneth.

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