brm_244779 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 297
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 9,85 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Dioclétien, de hau reiief. Revers de style fin où tous les détails anatomiques du Génie sont visibles. Patine marron avec des reflets métalliques gris, légèrement granuleuse
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/ B|-// LP.
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 1. Au revers, le pénis du Génie semble dressé ce qui est exceptionnel ! C’est le troisième exemplaire signalé avec ce type de césure après ceux de S. Boutin et du Baron Chaurand. Nous n’avons pas établir de liaison de coin pertinente. Prendra le numéro 100c dans le SUpplément III du Bastien.
Type 1 ribbons. On the reverse, the Genie's penis appears erect, which is exceptional! This is the third example reported with this type of caesura after those of S. Boutin and Baron Chaurand. We have not established a relevant die connection. Will take the number 100c in Supplement III of Bastien
Type 1 ribbons. On the reverse, the Genie's penis appears erect, which is exceptional! This is the third example reported with this type of caesura after those of S. Boutin and Baron Chaurand. We have not established a relevant die connection. Will take the number 100c in Supplement III of Bastien
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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