v29_0436 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 210.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 210.00 €
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 210.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 210.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 297-298
Mint name / Town : Proconsulaire, Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,87 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Flan extrêmement large et bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers inhabituel. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
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 : FELIX A-D-VENT AVGG NN/ I|-// PKA.
Reverse description : Africa (l’Afrique) drapée debout à gauche, la tête coiffée de la dépouille d’éléphant, tenant un étendard de la main droite et une corne d’éléphant de la main gauche ; à ses pieds à gauche, dépouille de lion tourné à droite, tenant un scorpion.
Reverse translation : “Felix Adventus Augustorum Nostrorum”, (L’Heureuse arrivée de nos augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 2. Le I dans le champ à gauche est pour Iovius (Jupiter).
Lightweight. Type 2 ribbons. The I in the left field is for Iovius (Jupiter)
Lightweight. Type 2 ribbons. The I in the left field is for Iovius (Jupiter)
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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