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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 1834900, member: 57495&quot;]Happy Birthday, Caesar Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Augustus!</p><p><br /></p><p>Lived : 22 December 244 - 3 December 311 AD</p><p>Reigned : 20 November 284 - 1 May 305 AD </p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your favorite coins of Diocletian - great reformer, great persecutor, great lover of cabbages.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lactantius (advisor to Constantine and tutor to his son), even as he names Galerius the chief instigator of the Great Persecution of Christians, calls Diocletian the &quot;author of ill&quot; and &quot;deviser of misery&quot; who went about &quot;ruining all things&quot;.&nbsp; Pretty harsh words for the man who effectively ended the Crisis of the Third Century, modernized the hopelessly outmoded Imperial bureaucracy, and ensured that there was even an Empire left for Constantine to eventually take over.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I think he was one of the most interesting characters of the period.&nbsp; I just hold him responsible for all those coins with the Genius reverses and starting the whole diadem wearing trend popular with the LRB-minting crowd.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]303811[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>DIOCLETIAN</b></p><p>Post reform radiate</p><p>RIC VI Heraclea 13 or 21 (not sure how to tell these two apart), 295-296 or 297-298 AD</p><p>O: IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right.</p><p>R: CONCORDIA MILITVM, emperor standing right, receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter, standing left holding sceptre, HA in lower center.</p><p><br /></p><p>Z.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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