brm_570792 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 300
Mint name / Town : Alexandria
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,75 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré. La monnaie a conservé une partie de son argenture. Joli revers. Patine grise
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/ XX|E/I// ALE.
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
Rubans de type 1 aux extrémités bouletées.
Type 1 ribbons with pelleted ends
Type 1 ribbons with pelleted ends
Historical background
DIOCLETIAN
(20/11/284-1/05/305)
After abdication
Diocletian compelled his colleague Maximian to abdicate on May 1, 305, Galerius and Constantius becoming augusts and the two former augusts receiving the titles of Beatissimo and Felicissimo. Maximian retired to his estates in Italy. He accepted his retirement badly and returned to service to help his son Maxence, after 306, before falling out with him the following year. Diocletian, as "Senior Augusti", organized the last chance conference to save the Tetrarchy at Carnuntum on November 11, 308. He then retired to Salona (Split) where he died in 313 or 316, possibly assassinated.
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