Description: Obverse: Head of Diocletian, wearing laurel wreath and beard, wearing imperial mantle, holding olive-branch in r. and mappa in l., facing r. Reverse: Providentia, draped, standing facing r., extending r. to Quies, draped, standing facing l., holding branch in r. and sceptre in l.; H in field, to l., and dots between the two figures.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D b DIOCLETIHNO FELICISSIMO SEN AVC (Our Lord Diocletian, Most Fortunate, Senior Augustus). Reverse: PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES HVCC (Foresight of the Gods, Retirement of the Emperors). In Exergue: PT
Bibliography: RIC VI 68A
Notes: According to RIC, the PT in the exergue of the reverse and the [A] in the field of the reverse are mintmarks (officina) indicating Ticinum.
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