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| Estimate : | 195 € |
| Price : | 141 € |
| Maximum bid : | 141 € |
| End of the sale : | 02 January 2017 14:18:00 |
| bidders : | 14 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290-291
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,71 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large, ovale, légèrement irrégulier, complet des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles, parfaitement centré. Très beau portrait consulaire de Dioclétien avec un buste inhabituel. Frappe un peu faible au revers sur la légende. Patine avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la trouvaille n° 1, de ROME I, 1995, n° 62 et de la collection Daniel Compas, MONNAIES XXVII, n° 213
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Dioclétien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (H).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI - AVGG/ -|-// A.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche, détournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Augustorum”, (Au Jupiter des augustes).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Robe consulaire richement décorée avec la toga picta et la toga palmata. Ce type de buste consulaire reste rare pour Dioclétien. Sur cet exemplaire le buste de Dioclétien ressemble à celui de Maximien Hercule. Néanmoins, nous n’avons relevé aucune liaison de coin pertinente. C’est le onzième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le n° 321c dans le Supplément III de Bastien.
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly decorated consular robe with the toga picta and the toga palmata. This type of consular bust remains rare for Diocletian. On this example, the bust of Diocletian resembles that of Maximian Hercules. However, we have not noted any relevant die bond. This is the eleventh example recorded. Will take the number 321c in Bastien's Supplement III
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly decorated consular robe with the toga picta and the toga palmata. This type of consular bust remains rare for Diocletian. On this example, the bust of Diocletian resembles that of Maximian Hercules. However, we have not noted any relevant die bond. This is the eleventh example recorded. Will take the number 321c in Bastien's Supplement III
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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