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Ten-aureus coin with portrait of Diocletian

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Description: Ten-aureus coin with portrait of Diocletian
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Description: Roman Sculpture
~Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus was a Dalmatian of low birth who served as an imperial bodyguard to Numerian and eventually rose to great heights by becoming emperor of Rome. Diocletian was chosen in 284 by the army for the critical task of avenging Numerian, who had been murdered at the instigation of Aper, his Praetorian prefect. After successfully achieving...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.399-427
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00185.010

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