bpv_570301 - DIOCLETIAN Tétradrachme
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Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,19 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré. Beau buste de Dioclétien. Joli revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*)..
Obverse legend : A K G OUL DIOKLETIANOS SEB. (Autokrator Kaisar Galerios Oualerios DiokletianoV SebastoV).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar galère Valère Dioclétien Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L/.
Reverse description : Athéna/Minerve casquée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une Niké de la main droite et s’appuyant sur son bouclier de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : (An 4).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Variante de buste (A*) au lieu de (B*) normalement.
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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