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brm_244765 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus

DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 5.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 293-295
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,03 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait et joli revers avec une usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé
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Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : CONCORDIA MI-LITVM/ (GAMMA)// XXI..
Reverse description : L'empereur et Jupiter debout face à face ; Dioclétien est à gauche, tenant un sceptre court de la main gauche et recevant un globe nicéphore de Jupiter nu, debout à droite, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Militum”, (La Concorde des soldats).

Commentary


Troué (antique, marque de démonétisation ?). Cette pièce se distingue par la marque à l’exergue qui se termine par un point. Les ptéryges sont invisibles. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées.

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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