bpv_387979 - DIOCLETIAN Tétradrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 8
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais. Beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Dioclétien à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : DIOKLETI-ANOS SEB. (DiokletianoV SebastoV).
Obverse translation : (Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L / H//.
Reverse description : Harpokrates de Péluse, nu debout à gauche, la tête tournée à droite, le manteau sur l’épaule, coiffé de la couronne (hemhem), tenant une branche avec des fruits de la main droite et une grenade de la main gauche ; Paniskos à ses pieds à gauche.
Reverse translation : (an 8).
Commentary
Représentation très particulière au revers décrit parfois comme Horis ou Zeus Kasios. Ce type existe aussi pour Maximien Hercule (AC. 4143/8). C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
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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