bpv_308612 - DIOCLETIAN Tétradrachme
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Price : 110.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 110.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,71 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Claude Burgan en 1988
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : A K G OUAD DIOKLETIANOS SEB. (Autokrator Kaisaros Gaios Oualerios DiokletianoV SebastoV).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Caius Valère Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : */ L/ .
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes ouvertes, la tête tournée à droite, une couronne dans le bec, entre deux enseignes (vexilla).
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : (Cinquième année du règne de Dioclétien).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3.
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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