E-auction 656-676025 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 294
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,72 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait de Dioclétien. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Dioclétien à droite (O*1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Caesar Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI // TR.
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
Ce type est bien plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
This type is much rarer than general works suggest.
This type is much rarer than general works suggest.
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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