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brm_514612 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus

DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus AU/AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 140.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,52 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très joli buste de Dioclétien. Bel Hercule au revers. Monnaie légèrement tachée au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :

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 arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : HERCVL-I INVICTO AVGG/ S|-// -.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et la léonté enroulée autour du bras gauche, s'appuyant sur sa massue.
Reverse translation : “Herculi Invicto Augustorum”, (À l’Hercule invincible des augustes).

Commentary


Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. C’est la deuxième fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente. Prendra le numéro 170c dans le Supplément III du Bastien.

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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