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REVERSE
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HERCVLI-VICTORI [HERCVLI VICTORI]; Hercules seated facing on pile of rocks, head right., club on l., quiver and bow on r., lion's skin over lap. IAN in exergue.
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NOT IN RIC
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UNLISTED ISSUE. Pink ("Die Goldprägung des Diocletianus und seiner Mitregenten", Numismatische Zeitschrift 1931, p. 38) and later Bastien ("The Iantinum Mint", American Numismatic Society Museum Notes, 25, 1980, pp. 77-85, plates 9-11) suggested that extremely rare gold issue with IAN in exergue was minted by a transitory mint at Ianticum (now Meaux in France). Listed in Depeyrot (p. 41, no. 1B/1) but with wrong obv. legend (...AVG instead of ...P AVG).
The Iantinum mint is not attested in RIC V/2 and RIC VI. If its short activity preceded the establishment of the mint at Treveri, these coins belong to pre-Reform coinage. However, there is a strong evidence that "the gold coins struck at Iantinum reuse obverse dies that were first used at Treveri". See: Sylviane Estiot, Pierre Zanchi, "De Lyon à Trèves. L’ouverture de l’atelier de Trèves à l’époque tétrarchique et ses premières émissions : monnaie radiée et monnaie d’or (293-295 apr. J.-C.)", Revue Numismatique 2014, pp. 247-296. Also, David Woods, "The Alleged Tetrarchic Mint at Iantinum", Numismatic Chronicle 2022, pp. 199-204.
See also:
See also:
IANTINUM, DIOCLETIAN, UNLISTED ISSUE [VIRTVS AVGG]
IANTINUM, MAXIMIAN HERCULIUS, UNLISTED ISSUE [IOVI FVLGERATORI]
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