brm_943168 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 296-297
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,96 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Superbe portrait fin de Dioclétien. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé aux reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête de Dioclétien laurée à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-L-I ROMAN// HTB.
Reverse description : Genius (le 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 gauche.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au Génie du peuple romain).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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