v27_0317 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 300.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 300.00 €
Starting price : 300.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 300.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 300-302
Date: 300 - mi 304
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,53 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Emission: 8e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement ovale. Beau portrait inhabituel de Dioclétien. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Dioclétien à gauche, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant avec un sceptre sur l’épaule droite (F*5).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI/ (AUTEL)|B// 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.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au Génie du Peuple romain).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture (3%). Rubans convergents : rubans descendant verticalement le long de la nuque ou légèrement incurvés vers l’arrière (type 3). Cuirasse cloutée. L’épaulière n’est pas visible. Les ptéryges sont importantes. Trace de frappe incuse du droit au revers. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du British Museum, Bastien n° 187a, pl. XVIII. C’est le troisième exemplaire publié. Prendra le numéro 187c dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all its silver plating (3%). Converging ribbons: ribbons descending vertically along the nape of the neck or slightly curved towards the back (type 3). Studded cuirass. The shoulder guard is not visible. The pteryges are prominent. Trace of incuse striking on the obverse. Same dies as the British Museum example, Bastien no. 187a, pl. XVIII. This is the third published example. Will take the number 187c in Supplement III of Bastien
With all its silver plating (3%). Converging ribbons: ribbons descending vertically along the nape of the neck or slightly curved towards the back (type 3). Studded cuirass. The shoulder guard is not visible. The pteryges are prominent. Trace of incuse striking on the obverse. Same dies as the British Museum example, Bastien no. 187a, pl. XVIII. This is the third published example. Will take the number 187c in Supplement III of Bastien
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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