v36_0763 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 299-303
Mint name / Town : Proconsulaire, Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,24 g.
Officine: 3e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large, parfaitement centré avec les grènetis complets. Beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers, mais sans trace de circulation. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Dioclétien à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVIS AVGG ET CAESS FEL KART/ -|-//.
Reverse description : Carthage debout de face, la tête tournée à gauche, drapée, tenant des fruits dans chaque main.
Reverse legend : G
Reverse translation : "Saluis Augustoris et Cæsaribus Felicitas Karthago", (La bienheureuse Carthage, pour le Salut des césars et des augustes).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 2. Légèrement tréflé au revers.
With all its surface silvering. Type 2 ribbons. Slightly trefoiled on the reverse.
With all its surface silvering. Type 2 ribbons. Slightly trefoiled on the reverse.
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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