brm_273916 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 85.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 302-303
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,11 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait particulier, taillé à la serpe. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques, légèrement tachée au revers
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 : SACRA MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN/ -|*// RP.
Reverse description : Moneta (la Monnaie) debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Sacra Moneta Urbis Augustorum et Caesarorum Nostri", (Monnaie sacrée de la Ville de nos augustes et césars).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 2 ribbons with pelleted ends
With all of its surface silvering. Type 2 ribbons with pelleted ends
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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