brm_972108 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 308
Mint name / Town : Alexandria
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Joli buste. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N DIOCLETIANO BAEATISS.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire à droite avec la trabea, tenant de la main droite une branche d'olivier et de la gauche la mappa (H*5).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Diocletiano Beatissimo”, (Notre seigneur le plus heureux Dioclétien).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDENTIA DEORVM/ A/ XK// ALE.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) et Quies (la Quiétude) debout face à face ; la Providence est debout à gauche tournée à droite, drapée, levant la main droite ; la Quiétude est debout à droite tournée à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum”, (La Providence des dieux).
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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