brm_604624 - GALERIUS Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 305-306
Mint name / Town : Aquilée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,82 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré à l’usure régulière. Frappe faible au revers. Patine marron superficielle
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Galère Auguste à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur Maximien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES MILITVM AVGG ET CAESS NN// AQP.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une enseigne militaire dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : "Fides Militum Augustorum et Cæsarum Nostrorum", (La Fidélité des soldats de nos augustes et de nos césars).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 2. Revers inhabituel.
Historical background
GALERIUS
(1/03/293-5/05/311)
Augustus
Galley was of humble origin. Chosen as Caesar on March 1 or May 1, 293, he was subordinate to Diocletian to help him govern the East. Galerius suffered a crushing defeat in 296 against the Sassanids but the following year he defeated Narses. According to Lactantius, he was at the origin of the persecution of Christians in 302-303. During Diocletian's illness, he pushes the latter to abdicate. Diocletian and Maximian leave power on May 1, 305 to Galerius and Constance who become august. The last six years of his life, he will helplessly witness the disintegration of the political regime created by Diocletian: the Tetrarchy. He died on May 5, 311 after having interrupted, five days before, the persecution against Christians.
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