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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Tetrarchy| > |Diocletian| > RB90467
Diocletian, 20 November 284 - 1 May 305 A.D.
|Diocletian|, |Diocletian,| |20| |November| |284| |-| |1| |May| |305| |A.D.|, The obverse dedicates the coin, "to our lord Diocletian the most pious and fortunate senior emperor." This coin was struck for Diocletian after his abdication and the reverse is dedicated to his rest and retirement. Quies is the personification of rest and retirement.
RB90467. Billon follis (large), RIC VI Treveri 699 (S), SRCV IV -, Choice aEF, nice green patina, some minor pitting, 1st officina, Treveri (Trier, Germany) mint, weight 6.763g, maximum diameter 25.7mm, die axis 180o, c. spring 307 A.D.; obverse D N DIOCLETIANO P F S AVG, laureate bust right, wearing imperial mantle, olive branch in right hand, mappa in left; reverse QVIES AV-GVSTORVM, Quies standing half left, branch in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking across field, PTR in exergue; very scarce; SOLD










REFERENCES|

Cahn, H.A. "Die Trierer Antoniniane der Tetrarchie" in SNR XXXVII (1955).
Schulte, P.N. Die Römische Münzstätte Trier von der Wiederaufnahme ihrer Tätigkeit unter Diocletian bis zum Ende der Folles-Prägung. (Frankfurt, 1974).
von Schrötter, F. Die Münzen von Trier. 2. Teil. (Bonn 1908).
Weiller, R. Die Münzen von trier, 1. Teil. (Düsseldorf, 1988).
Zschucke, C.-F. Die römische Münzstätte Trier. (Trier, 1988).

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