正面
正面的文字 IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
正面的说明书 Tête laurée de Dioclétien à droite (O*).
正面的翻译 "Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus" (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
背面
背面的文字 GENIO POPV-L-I ROMANI// .TSA..
背面的说明书 Genius (le Génie) debout à gauche, coiffé du modius, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
背面的翻译 "Genio Populi Romani", (Au Génie du peuple romain).
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.