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brm_781876 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus

MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus MS
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 289-290
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,84 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan centré. Beau buste de Maximien Hercule. Très joli revers. Belle patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés
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Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximien Auguste”, (L’empereur Maximien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : SALVS - AVGG// T.
Reverse description : Salus (La Santé) drapé, debout à droite, tenant une patère de la main gauche et nourrissant un serpent qu'il tient de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augustorum”, (La Santé des Augustes).

Commentary


Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Casque pointé. Couvre nuque lisse. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines. Césure de légende de droit inhabituelle. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du British Museum (B. 298, pl. XXI). Manque à la collection du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF. Prendra le numéro 298b dans le Supplément III du Bastien.

Historical background


MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS

(10/12/285-02/310)

Auguste I

Maximian was born in Sirmium around 250. He has "a low forehead, a wrinkled face, a trumpet nose, a thick chin and neck, a shaggy beard" according to "The Roman Emperors", op. cit., p. 119. This description does not look so much like the portraits of the argentei, which are stereotyped and not necessarily recognizable. He is chosen by Diocletian to assist him. He was first Caesar, then Augustus from April 286, and it was the foundation of the Diarchy. Maximien settles in Trèves and must fight against the barbarian invasions and the usurpation of Carausius in Brittany. In 293, when the Tetrarchy was created, he was assisted by Constantius Chlorus. Diocletian forces Maximian to abdicate on May 1, 305. He resents retirement and goes to support his son Maxentius when he seizes Rome on October 28, 306. He resumes service as august in 307 and helps Constantine to whom he gives his daughter Fausta in marriage. Maximian is forced to abdicate at the conference of Carnuntum, November 11, 308. One last time, he resumes the purple at the beginning of 310 in Marseilles before committing suicide or being assassinated.

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