Antoninien
The antoninien is the contemporary name of a Roman silver money of the 3rd century, created into 215 by the emperor Caracalla whose official name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus . This species in practice replaced the Denier which was a coin of three grams made up of an alloy with equal copper and money shares (balk).
The antoninien had the same money title that the sum of money but it was emitted for a double value with a weight of 5 grams and not of 6. In fact, the introduction of this currency returned to a devaluation, which temporarily got important liquidities at the imperial State.
In Occident, the antoninien was maintained with a suitable quality until towards 263. After this date, the multiplication of its strike by the many emperors and usurpers of the medium of IIIe century, in particular Gallien, Claude II and Quintille, Victorin, and Tétricus, in order to face their military expenditure, caused his fast devaluation.
After an attempt at rehabilitation carried out by Aurélien, it disappeared under Dioclétien with the monetary reforms from the Tétrarchie.
One recognizes the antoniniens with the erased portrait of the emperor and the crescent on which the bust of the empress is posed.
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