v13_0952 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 381.12 €
Estimate : 686.02 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 381.12 €
Estimate : 686.02 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290/291
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,21 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire tout à fait exceptionnel à plusieurs titres avec un buste de la plus grande rareté. Avec des traces d’argenture. Faiblesse de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Dioclétien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant avec un bouclier visible sur l’épaule gauche (B3).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS - AVGG// C.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à droite, tenant une patère de la main droite et nourrissant un serpent de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augustorum”, (La Santé des Augustes).
Commentary
Mêmes coins de droit que les exemplaires publiés dans le supplément de l’ouvrage de P. Bastien (B. supplément 396 alpha et bêta). Poids léger.
Same obverse dies as the examples published in the supplement to P. Bastien's work (B. supplement 396 alpha and beta). Light weight
Same obverse dies as the examples published in the supplement to P. Bastien's work (B. supplement 396 alpha and beta). Light weight
Historical background
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.
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