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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 720.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 720.00 €
Type : Argenteus
Date: 295-297
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,50 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large, parfaitement centré au droit avec le grènetis complet. Portrait magnifique. Frappe un peu molle au revers avec une grande rayure transversale. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Dioclétien à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Diocletianus Augustus”, (Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI-A SARMAT/ -|-//.
Reverse description : Les Tétrarques, Dioclétien, Maximien, Constance et Galère, vêtus militairement, deux par deux, sacrifiant au-dessus d'un trépied allumé placé devant une enceinte composée de quatre tours.
Reverse legend : D
Reverse translation : “Victoriæ Sarmaticæ” (À La victoire sur les Sarmates).
Commentary
Rubans de type 1 aux extrémités bouletées. Césure de légende de revers inhabituelle. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type .
Type 1 ribbons with pelleted ends. Unusual reverse legend caesura. This is the first time we have offered this type.
Type 1 ribbons with pelleted ends. Unusual reverse legend caesura. This is the first time we have offered this type.
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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