brm_616162 - DIOCLETIAN Denier
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Price : 680.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 680.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 290
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Superbe revers finement détaillé. Patine cuivrée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTV-S AVGG.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à droite, tenant un arc et la léonté de la main gauche et appuyé de la main droite sur sa massue.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Ce type appartient à une émission qui semble comprendre des as (M&M XIII n° 197 et 198), des deniers (M&M 199 et 200) et des quinaires (M&M n° 201 à 204). Ce revers semble attaché à Maximien Hercule et avoir été frappé avant 294 pour l’atelier de Rome. Les auteurs du RIC retenaient 290. Dans le RIC, ce type est donné pour un quinaire.
Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryges under the paludamentum. This type belongs to an issue that appears to include aces (M&M XIII nos. 197 and 198), denarii (M&M 199 and 200), and quinaries (M&M nos. 201 to 204). This reverse appears to be associated with Maximian Hercules and to have been struck before 294 for the Rome mint. The authors of the RIC used 290. In the RIC, this type is given as a quinary
Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryges under the paludamentum. This type belongs to an issue that appears to include aces (M&M XIII nos. 197 and 198), denarii (M&M 199 and 200), and quinaries (M&M nos. 201 to 204). This reverse appears to be associated with Maximian Hercules and to have been struck before 294 for the Rome mint. The authors of the RIC used 290. In the RIC, this type is given as a quinary
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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