brm_746054 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Price : 90.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 286-288
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,65 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Très beau buste de Dioclétien. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C VAL DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, avec l’égide, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Valerius Diocletianus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Valerius Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI - CONS-ERVAT// TXXIT.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche regardant à droite avec le manteau déployé derrière lui, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche ; à ses pieds, à gauche, un aigle ; derrière lui, à droite, deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : "Iovi Conservatori" (A Jupiter le Protecteur).
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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