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brm_696486 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus

DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2022)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 300-304
Mint name / Town : Lyonnaise, Lugdunum (Lyon)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 9,41 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste de Dioclétien. Revers de style fin. Très belle patine verte
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI/ -|A// PLG.
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 ; dans le champ à gauche, un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au Génie du Peuple romain).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines. Axe des coins inhabituel.

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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