E-auction 171-106159 - brm_164890 - DIOCLETIAN Follis ou nummus
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| Estimate : | 175 € |
| Price : | 91 € |
| Maximum bid : | 158 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 July 2016 14:31:00 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 305-306
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,00 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 10,54 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Très beau portrait. Revers de haut relief. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N DIOCLETIANO FELICISSIMO SEN AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré consulaire de Dioclétien à droite avec la trabea, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une branche d'olivier de la main droite et la mappa de la main gauche (H*5).
Obverse translation : “Domino Nostro Diocletiano Felicissimo Senior Augusti”, (À notre seigneur Dioclétien très heureux auguste le plus ancien).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES AVGG/ S-(GAMMA)-F// .SM.SD..
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) et Quies (le Repos) debout face à face ; la Providence est debout à gauche tournée à droite, drapée, levant la main droite ; le Repos est debout à droite tourné à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum Quies Augustorum”, (La Providence divine le Repos des augustes).
Commentary
Représentation du revers tout à fait exceptionnelle. Le buste consulaire est richement décoré.
Historical background
DIOCLETIAN
(20/11/284-1/05/305)
After abdication
Diocletian compelled his colleague Maximian to abdicate on May 1, 305, Galerius and Constantius becoming augusts and the two former augusts receiving the titles of Beatissimo and Felicissimo. Maximian retired to his estates in Italy. He accepted his retirement badly and returned to service to help his son Maxence, after 306, before falling out with him the following year. Diocletian, as "Senior Augusti", organized the last chance conference to save the Tetrarchy at Carnuntum on November 11, 308. He then retired to Salona (Split) where he died in 313 or 316, possibly assassinated.
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