brm_274050 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 302-303
Mint name / Town : Aquilée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,24 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait de Dioclétien. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine marron clair. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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 : SACR MONET AVGG ET CAESS NOSTR// -|VI// AQS.
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 Augustorum et Caesarum Nostrorum", (La Monnaie sacrée de nos augustes et de nos césars).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées.
Type 2 ribbons with pelleted ends
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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