v53_0487 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 220.00 €
Realised price : 165.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 165.00 €
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 220.00 €
Realised price : 165.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 165.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 304-305
Mint name / Town : Égypte, Alexandrie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 12e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau portrait de Dioclétien. Revers inhabituel. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Dioclétien à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus", (l'empereur césar Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CO-NS CAES/ (DELTA)/ S|P// ALE.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu et lauré debout à gauche, le manteau flottant sur l'épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Iovi Conservatori Cæsari", (À Jupiter conservateur du César).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Le revers fait référence à Galère, le césar associé à Dioclétien.
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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