brm_590691 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Price : 250.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 296
Mint name / Town : Londres
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,02 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier. Belle tête de Dioclétien, taillé à la serpe. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
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 : GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI.
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 gauche.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au Génie du peuple romain).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 1. Tête particulière de Dioclétien avec une tête taillée à la serpe. Rare exemplaire de la deuxième émission de l’atelier de Londres qui par le droit peut faire penser aux émissions de l’atelier continental (Boulogne ?).
Lightweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 1 ribbons. Distinctive head of Diocletian with a billhook head. Rare example of the second issue of the London mint which by obverse may be reminiscent of the issues of the continental mint (Boulogne?)
Lightweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 1 ribbons. Distinctive head of Diocletian with a billhook head. Rare example of the second issue of the London mint which by obverse may be reminiscent of the issues of the continental mint (Boulogne?)
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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