Live auction - brm_364472 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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| Estimate : | 750 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 29 September 2015 15:06:45 |
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 303-305
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,90 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large épais, légèrement ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait casqué de Dioclétien. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Très jolie patine vert olive foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Jean-Luc Cougnard en 2005, de MONNAIES 55, n° 277 et de collection de Daniel Compas
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS A-VG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, lauré et cuirassé de Dioclétien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste de la main droite et un bouclier de la gauche (E*1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI/ S|F//PTR.
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
Portrait magnifique. Le casque lauré est ornementé de volutes. Visière lisse. Couvre nuque orné de trois globules posés en triangle, cuirasse lisse. Bouclier lisse avec bordure décorative. Au revers, cassure de coin perceptible dans le second P de Popvli. Les lettres S|F du champ du revers peuvent se traduire par “Saeculi Felicitas” , (le siècle de la Félicité).
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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