The silver coinage of Diocletian's reform (294-312 AD).

This work is the result of in-depth research conducted over more than thirty years in a large number of public and private collections as well as publications dealing with reformed silver coinage. The first part of the book reviews the various aspects of this original coinage produced from 294 pC and which is inspired by both the Augustan and Neroian reforms. In this respect, the place and value of argenteus within the new monetary system, its characteristics, its metallic content, its metrology and, finally, the finds containing it, are successively addressed. The second part presents, through the fifteen workshops concerned, the annotated catalogs of a study sample of approximately 8,500 coins. The eighty plates of the work also reproduce more than 1,800 examples illustrating the 1,048 varieties described, which more than triples the material so far listed. This research manual should logically be part of a desirable revision of volume VI of the Roman Imperial Coinage , already more than half a century old.