E-auction 78-38587 - brm_300938 - DOMITIUS DOMITIANUS Follis ou nummus

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Estimate :	850 €
Price :	175 €
Maximum bid :	180 €
End of the sale :	13 October 2014 15:00:00
bidders :	7 bidders

Type : Follis ou nummus

Date: 296-297

Mint name / Town : Alexandria

Metal : copper

Diameter : 26 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 9,39 g.

Rarity : R3

Officine: 3e

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux cotés. Usure importante mais la monnaie reste parfaitement lisible et identifiable ! Patine marron

Catalogue references :

C.1 (100 f.) - RIC.20

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant d’une vente Thierry Parsy à Drouot en avril 2013

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C L DOMITIVS DOMITIANVS AVG.

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Domitius Domitianus à droite (O*).

Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Lucius Domitius Domitianus Augustus”, ( L’empereur césar Lucius Domitius Domitien auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-L-I ROMANI/ -||(GAMMA)// 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 ; à ses pieds dans le champ à gauche, un aigle.

Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au Génie du peuple romain).

Commentary

Rubans de type 1 aux extrémités bouletées.

Historical background

DOMITIUS DOMITIANUS

(07/296-03/297)

Lucius Domitius Domitianus, also known as Achilleus, rebels against Diocletian in Alexandria around July 296. The revolt lasts for two Alexandrian years. Diocletian must go to Egypt to crush it. Domitianus, during his reign, tries to reform the Alexandrian monetary system. In addition to very rare maddies, he minted several Alexandrian denominations, the production of which ceased at the time of the reform. In particular, he creates two radiated species, an octodrachm worth twice the tetradrachm, of about 12.60 g (12.63 g Milne and ours of 12.79 g), the hexadrachm (NFA. XII-441, 8 .49g); two laureate pieces, the tetradrachm and the didrachm. After the fall of Alexandria and the death of Domitianus, Diocletian definitively abolishes the colonial workshop and restores the imperial workshop.