brm_390456 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 302 - mi 304
Date: 300 - mi 304
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 9,07 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale. Portrait de toute beauté. Patine grise. La monnaie a conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Dioclétien à gauche drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*11).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI/ (AUTEL)|A// PLG.
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 son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulières cloutée. Les ptéryges sont fines. Type que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente !.
With its superficial silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder pads. The pteryges are fine. Type that we are presenting for the first time for sale!
With its superficial silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder pads. The pteryges are fine. Type that we are presenting for the first time for sale!
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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