v36_0751 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps-été 286
Date: 286
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,59 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large et ovale avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
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 Valère Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSERVAT AVGG/ A| -// -.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter protecteur des augustes).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Trace de cassure de coin au revers dans la fin de légende. L’exemplaire de la collection Daniel Compas, MONNAIES XXVII, n° 147 s’est vendu 150€.
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. Trace of die breakage on the reverse at the end of the legend. The copy from the Daniel Compas collection, COINS XXVII, No. 147 sold for €150
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. Trace of die breakage on the reverse at the end of the legend. The copy from the Daniel Compas collection, COINS XXVII, No. 147 sold for €150
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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