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Live auction - brm_520917 - GALERIUS Follis ou nummus

GALERIUS Follis ou nummus MS/AU
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Estimate : 250 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 29 January 2019 15:04:12
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 305-306
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,87 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, large, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau buste de style fin. Faiblesse de frappe à 12h au revers. Patine marron avec des reflets métalliques, légèrement tachée au revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Galère Auguste à gauche drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Maximianus Augustus", (L’empereur Maximien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI/ -|*// PLG.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie) coiffé du modius debout à gauche, à demi nu, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un autel.
Reverse translation : "Genio Populi Romani", (Au Génie du peuple romain).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines. Nous sommes bien en présence d’un follis de Galère Auguste (B. 375) et non pas de Maximien Hercule (B. 358).

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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