v32_0531 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 150.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 165.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 150.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 165.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: fin 303 - 1er mai 305
Date: 303-305
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,20 g.
Emission: 9e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage avec un buste extraordinaire. Revers de haut relief et de frappe vigoureuse. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. A conservé son brillant de frappe et une partie de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, avec pan de paludamentum vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI/ S|F//PTR.
Reverse description : Genius (Génie) debout à gauche, coiffé du modius, 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”, (Au Génie du Peuple romain).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse lisse, ornée de globules. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges larges. Sur cet exemplaire de flan très large, sous le buste cuirassé, nous semblons voir une main, tenant une couronne ce qui ferait de ce buste un élément complètement nouveau et non recensé, mais nous ne pouvons pas trancher.
Type 3 ribbons. Smooth cuirass, decorated with globules. Studded shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. On this very wide flan example, under the cuirassed bust, we seem to see a hand, holding a crown, which would make this bust a completely new and unrecorded element, but we cannot decide
Type 3 ribbons. Smooth cuirass, decorated with globules. Studded shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. On this very wide flan example, under the cuirassed bust, we seem to see a hand, holding a crown, which would make this bust a completely new and unrecorded element, but we cannot decide
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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