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E-auction 260-183165 - brm_174152 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus

DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus AU/XF
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Estimate : 145 €
Price : 81 €
Maximum bid : 89 €
End of the sale : 09 April 2018 14:07:00
bidders : 7 bidders
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 292
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,77 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale. Très beau portrait particulier. Frappe molle et faible au revers. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques, légèrement tachée au revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : IOVI - AVGG/ -|-// A.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu jusqu'à la ceinture assis à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Augustorum”, (Au Jupiter des augustes).

Commentary


Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Il faut remarquer que c’est le portrait de Maximien Hercule qui a été gravé sur cet aurelianus de Dioclétien. Daniel Gricourt signalait déjà ce genre d’anomalie dans son article de la Revue Belge de Numismatique en 1984 et dans le Supplément II, op. cit, p. 78 “D’autres cas concernent la pertinence des titulatures et des effigies : parfois, le scalptor grave la titulature d’un empereur autour de l’effigie d’un autre des Tétrarques. Une titulature et un buste de Dioclétien peuvent ainsi être associés à une titulature de Maximien (Gricourt, p. 68, n° 8) ; un portrait et un type de buste de Maximien associés à une titulature de Galère (B. n° 623a et Suppl. II, n° 623b”. Pour cet exemplaire sous le D de DIOCLETIANVS on distingue très nettement un M. Cet exemplaire sera publié dans le Supplément III du Bastien sous le numéro 435g.
With all of its surface silvering intact. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum. It should be noted that it is the portrait of Maximian Hercules that was engraved on this aurelianus of Diocletian. Daniel Gricourt already pointed out this type of anomaly in his article in the Revue Belge de Numismatique in 1984 and in Supplement II, op. cit, p. 78 “Other cases concern the relevance of titles and effigies: sometimes, the scalptor engraves the title of an emperor around the effigy of another of the Tetrarchs. A title and a bust of Diocletian can thus be associated with a title of Maximian (Gricourt, p. 68, no. 8); a portrait and a type of bust of Maximian associated with a title of Galerius (B. no. 623a and Suppl. II, no. 623b”. For this example under the D of DIOCLETIANVS we can very clearly distinguish an M. This example will be published in Supplement III of Bastien under the number 435g

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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