v43_0701 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 541.00 €
Number of bids : 11
Maximum bid : 985.00 €
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 541.00 €
Number of bids : 11
Maximum bid : 985.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 297
Mint name / Town : Bretagne, Londres
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 10,75 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Très belle patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
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/ -|-// LON.
Reverse description : Genio (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 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Première pièce de l’atelier de Londres après la réforme monétaire et la prise de Londres par Constance Ier Chlore sur Allectus. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente. Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Type 2 ribbons with pelleted ends. First coin from the London mint after the monetary reform and the capture of London by Constantius I Chlorus from Allectus. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale. Appears much rarer than general works suggest.
Type 2 ribbons with pelleted ends. First coin from the London mint after the monetary reform and the capture of London by Constantius I Chlorus from Allectus. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale. Appears much rarer than general works suggest.
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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