brm_222739 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 65.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 65.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 293-295
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,46 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés dans un état de conservation exceptionnel pour ce type monétaire. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers de haut relief. Patine gris métalique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS 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 Augustus", (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA MI-LITVM/ A// XXI..
Reverse description : L'empereur et Jupiter debout face à face ; Dioclétien est à gauche, tenant un sceptre court de la main gauche et recevant un globe nicéphore de Jupiter nu, debout à droite, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Militum”, (La Concorde des soldats).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Cette pièce se distingue par la marque à l’exergue qui se termine par un point. Les ptéryges sont fines et à peine visibles. Rubans de type 3.
With all its silver plating. This piece is distinguished by the exergue mark which ends in a dot. The pteryges are thin and barely visible. Type 3 ribbons
With all its silver plating. This piece is distinguished by the exergue mark which ends in a dot. The pteryges are thin and barely visible. Type 3 ribbons
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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