Argenteus
![Argenteus struck under Constantius Chlorus, weighing 3.36 g.](/Images/godic/202412/21/Argenteus-Constantius_I-antioch_RIC_033a3911.jpg")
![Drei Argentei, Münzstätte: Trier.
Vorderseiten, von oben nach unten:
Diokletian DiokletianVS AVG
Constantius Chlorus CONSTANTIVS CN
Galerius MAXIMIANVS CAES
(alle 293–305 n. Chr.)
Auf den Rückseiten: Die vier Tetrarchen Diokletian, Maximian, Constantius Chlorus und Galerius opfern vor dem Tor eines Feldlagers, VIRTVS MILITVM](/Images/godic/202412/21/Argentei_1198-1200_200607083911.jpg")
The argenteus was a silver coin produced by the Roman Empire from the time of Diocletian's coinage reform in AD 294 to ca. AD 310. It was of similar weight and fineness as the denarius of the time of Nero. The coin was produced at a theoretical weight of 1/96th of a Roman pound (about 3 grams), as indicated by the Roman numeral XCVI on the coin's reverse.