brm_390503 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Price : 125.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 302-303
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,90 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré. Superbe portrait et joli revers. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI/ S|F// IITR.
Reverse description : Genius (le 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
Poids très léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Petit pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges larges. Les lettres S|F au revers pourraient se traduire par “Sæculi Felicitas”, (le siècle de la Félicité).
Very light weight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Small panel of paludamentum on the shoulder. Studded cuirass and shoulder guard. Large pteryges. The letters S|F on the reverse could be translated as “Sæculi Felicitas”, (the century of Felicity)
Very light weight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Small panel of paludamentum on the shoulder. Studded cuirass and shoulder guard. Large pteryges. The letters S|F on the reverse could be translated as “Sæculi Felicitas”, (the century of Felicity)
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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