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Price : 80.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 1/05/305 - 25/07/306
Date: 305-306
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,95 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince et très large. Très beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers sur le Génie de style très fin. Jolie patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Galère auguste à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Maximien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI/ (AUTEL)|*// 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
Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse cloutée. Épaulière ornée d’une palme. Les ptéryges sont fines. Pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule. Avec cette césure, c’est le troisième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéro 371h dans le Supplément III.
Without silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Studded breastplate. Shoulder guard decorated with a palm. The pteryges are fine. Pan of paludamentum on the shoulder. With this caesura, this is the third example identified. Will take number 371h in Supplement III
Without silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Studded breastplate. Shoulder guard decorated with a palm. The pteryges are fine. Pan of paludamentum on the shoulder. With this caesura, this is the third example identified. Will take number 371h in Supplement III
Historical background
GALERIUS
(1/03/293-5/05/311)
Augustus
Galley was of humble origin. Chosen as Caesar on March 1 or May 1, 293, he was subordinate to Diocletian to help him govern the East. Galerius suffered a crushing defeat in 296 against the Sassanids but the following year he defeated Narses. According to Lactantius, he was at the origin of the persecution of Christians in 302-303. During Diocletian's illness, he pushes the latter to abdicate. Diocletian and Maximian leave power on May 1, 305 to Galerius and Constance who become august. The last six years of his life, he will helplessly witness the disintegration of the political regime created by Diocletian: the Tetrarchy. He died on May 5, 311 after having interrupted, five days before, the persecution against Christians.
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