v27_0298 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: fin 294 - début 295
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,87 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure régulière, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Flan légèrement concave au revers. Jolie patine marron chocolat foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la liste Argenor, octobre 2001, n° 604
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/ -|-// PLA.
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
Poids léger. Rubans divergents avec un noeud large derrière la tête, ruban antérieur descendant sur le cou et ruban postérieur descendant verticalement (type 2). Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du British Museum, Bastien n° 2a, pl. I, Bastien n° 2c, pl I ainsi que le trésor de Fresnoy-lès-Roye I, n° 1728. C’est le dixième exemplaire signalé avec cette césure. Prendra le numéro 2e dans le supplément III du Bastien.
Light weight. Divergent ribbons with a wide knot behind the head, anterior ribbon descending on the neck and posterior ribbon descending vertically (type 2). Same obverse die as the examples in the British Museum, Bastien no. 2a, pl. I, Bastien no. 2c, pl. I as well as the Fresnoy-lès-Roye I treasure, no. 1728. This is the tenth example reported with this caesura. Will take the number 2e in supplement III of Bastien
Light weight. Divergent ribbons with a wide knot behind the head, anterior ribbon descending on the neck and posterior ribbon descending vertically (type 2). Same obverse die as the examples in the British Museum, Bastien no. 2a, pl. I, Bastien no. 2c, pl. I as well as the Fresnoy-lès-Roye I treasure, no. 1728. This is the tenth example reported with this caesura. Will take the number 2e 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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