正面
正面的文字 IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
正面的说明书 Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, avec pan de paludamentum vu de trois quarts en avant (C01).
正面的翻译 “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).
背面
背面的文字 PAX - AVGG/ A|-// *.
背面的说明书 Minerve casquée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant un rameau d'olivier de la main droite et une haste de la main gauche, appuyée sur son bouclier.
背面的翻译 “Pax Augustorum”, (La Paix des augustes).
历史细节
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.