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Live auction - brm_421284 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus

DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus AU
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Estimate : 350 €
Price : 250 €
Maximum bid : 360 €
End of the sale : 02 May 2017 15:03:06
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 295
Mint name / Town : Boulogne
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,33 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, ovale et irrégulier bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait particulier de Dioclétien. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Belle patine noire

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Dioclétien à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI - ROMANI/ -|-// -.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie) debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Le Génie du Peuple romain).

Commentary


Poids très léger. Petite effigie. Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Portrait particulier. Exemplaire de la plus grande rareté. La titulature et le portrait sont très proches des folles lyonnais des trois premières émissions (294-295) et seraient donc frappés à Boulogne. Le follis n’est pas de Lyon et n’a pas eu la marque d’exergue arasée ou n’est pas mal frappé, la marque mal venue. Il s’agit d’un scalptor lyonnais comme l’a démontré le Docteur Pierre Bastien qui suit le “comitatus” de Constance Chlore qui s’apprête à passer en Bretagne afin d’affronter Allectus. Trois exemplaires répertoriés dans le corpus du Docteur Bastien en 1976 (B. 6a-c, pl. LXIX avec la césure POPV-LI contre un avec la césure POP-VLI).

Historical background


DIOCLETIAN

(20/11/284-1/05/305)

Augustus

Diocletian, born in 245 in Dalmatia (Split), is an Illyrian emperor. After having eliminated Aper, prefect of the praetorium, also father-in-law and assassin of Numérien, he put on the purple on November 20, 284. Fighting first against Carin, last son of Carus, he was beaten at Margus the following year. But Carin is assassinated and Diocletian alone remains august. He raised Maximian, a compatriot, to the rank of Caesar in November 285, then Augustus on April 1, 286. Diocletian had just created a new political regime, the dyarchy. Two emperors shared military and political power there, but Maximian remained subordinate to Diocletian. Diocletian places himself under the Jovian protection (of Jupiter) while Maximian is of Herculean essence (of Hercules). Diocletian spent the first ten years of his reign fighting in the East, while Maximian remained in the West. Diocletian is the first emperor of the Lower Empire, according to the expression of Gibbons, and the founder of the dominion.

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