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Live auction - brm_504343 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus

DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus AU/XF
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Estimate : 200 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 30 October 2018 14:58:07
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 295
Mint name / Town : Boulogne
Metal : copper
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,60 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale très large bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Dioclétien. Frappe un peu bouchée au revers. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets marron

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 POP-VLI ROMANI.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie) debout à gauche, 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”, (Le Génie du Peuple romain).

Commentary


Poids très léger. Avec une grande partie de son argenture superficielle. Petite effigie. Rubans de type 3. Portrait particulier. Exemplaire de la plus grande rareté. La titulature et le portrait sont très proches des folles lyonnais des trois premières émissions (294-295) et seraient donc frappés à Boulogne. Le follis n’est pas de Lyon et n’a pas eu la marque d’exergue arasée ou n’est pas mal frappé, la marque mal venue. Il s’agit d’un scalptor lyonnais comme l’a démontré le Docteur Pierre Bastien qui suit le “comitatus” de Constance Chlore qui s’apprête à passer en Bretagne afin d’affronter Allectus. Un seul exemplaire répertorié dans le corpus du Docteur Bastien en 1976 (B. 6d, pl. LXIX avec la césure POP-VLI contre trois avec la césures POPV-LI).
Very light weight. With a large part of its surface silvering. Small effigy. Type 3 ribbons. Particular portrait. Extremely rare example. The title and the portrait are very close to the folles lyonnais of the first three issues (294-295) and would therefore have been struck in Boulogne. The follis is not from Lyon and did not have the exergue mark leveled or is not badly struck, the mark badly placed. It is a scalptor lyonnais as demonstrated by Doctor Pierre Bastien who follows the “comitatus” of Constance Chlore who is preparing to go to Brittany to confront Allectus. Only one example listed in Doctor Bastien's corpus in 1976 (B. 6d, pl. LXIX with the caesura POP-VLI against three with the caesura POPV-LI)

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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