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brm_430985 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus

DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus XF
125.00 €(Approx. 135.00$ | 107.50£)
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 300-301
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,73 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux cotés. Joli portrait inhabituel. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : MONETA. S. AVGG ET CAESS NN/ -|*// ATR.
Reverse description : Moneta (la Monnaie) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Moneta Sacra Augustorum et Cæsarum Nostrorum”, (La Monnaie sacrée de nos augustes et de nos césars).

Commentary


Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Buste très rare pour l’atelier de Trèves. Dans le Roman Imperial Coinage, nous avons un seul cas avec ce type de buste (A*2) associé à la légende courte IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG, c’est un follis avec M SACRA AVGG ET CAESS NN/ --*// BTR (RIC. 475).

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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