brm_389881 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 286-290
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,32 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 21e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale, bien centré. Portrait de toute beauté ! Joli revers. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus” (L’empereur césar Caius Valère Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI ET HERCV CONSER AVGG/ (CROISSANT)/EA// XXI.
Reverse description : Jupiter et Hercule debout face à face ; Jupiter est debout à gauche, tourné à droite, tenant un globe et un sceptre, recevant un globe nicéphore d’Hercule, debout à gauche, tenant la massue et la léonté.
Reverse translation : “Iovi et Herculi Conservatori Augustorum” (À Jupiter et Hercule, conservateurs des augustes).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle.
With all of its superficial silvering
With all of its superficial silvering
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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