brm_244777 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 303
Mint name / Town : Londres
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,74 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait très particulier de Dioclétien. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXI, n° 3403 (coll. Laurent Schmitt)
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 Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI.
Reverse description : Genio (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 de type 3 aux extrméités bouletées. Ptéryges fines et tombantes. Type de buste très rare pour Dioclétien qui manque à la plupart des ouvrages. Semble mal répertorié, inédit et non répertorié. Le seul exemplaire signalé, celui du trésor de Lignères (n° 382, pl. IX), publié en 1974 par le Dr. P. Bastien et P. Cothenet était mal décrit.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin, drooping pteryges. Very rare type of bust for Diocletian, missing from most works. Appears poorly recorded, unpublished, and unlisted. The only reported example, that of the Lignères treasure (no. 382, pl. IX), published in 1974 by Dr. P. Bastien and P. Cothenet, was poorly described.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin, drooping pteryges. Very rare type of bust for Diocletian, missing from most works. Appears poorly recorded, unpublished, and unlisted. The only reported example, that of the Lignères treasure (no. 382, pl. IX), published in 1974 by Dr. P. Bastien and P. Cothenet, was poorly described.
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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