brm_602643 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Price : 180.00 €
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Price : 180.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290 - 291
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,68 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau buste de Dioclétien de haut relief. Revers bien venu à la frappe, de style fin. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire radié de Dioclétien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IO-VI A-VGG/ -|-// A.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche, tournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Augustorum”, (Au Jupiter des augustes).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Robe consulaire constituée de la toga picta et de la toga palmata richement décorée, ornée d’une couronne sur le plastron et d’une frise décorative sur l’épaule.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Consular dress consisting of the toga picta and the richly decorated toga palmata, decorated with a crown on the plastron and a decorative frieze on the shoulder
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Consular dress consisting of the toga picta and the richly decorated toga palmata, decorated with a crown on the plastron and a decorative frieze on the shoulder
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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