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brm_285092 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 250.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 297
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,82 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, irrégulier et bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Dioclétien. Usure plus importante au revers. Patine gris métallique
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite avec l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*02).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI/ A|-// LP.
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 superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges larges. Petite égide sur l’épaule. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié. Prendra le numéro 83(bêta)a dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Large pteryges. Small aegis on the shoulder. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Will take number 83(beta)a in Supplement III of Bastien
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Large pteryges. Small aegis on the shoulder. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Will take number 83(beta)a 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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