brm_222740 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 95.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 293-294
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,91 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré. Très beau portrait. Joli revers. Très belle patine vert olive foncé
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet
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 avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA MILI-TVM/ HB/ .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 superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Ce type avec les lettres HB dans le champ précèdes les monnaies de la réforme monétaire de 294, mais est encore un aureelianus avec la marque XXI. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente qui semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Pteryga barely visible under the paludamentum. This type with the letters HB in the field precedes the coins of the monetary reform of 294, but is still an aureelianus with the mark XXI. This is the first time that we are offering this type for sale which seems rarer than the general works suggest.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Pteryga barely visible under the paludamentum. This type with the letters HB in the field precedes the coins of the monetary reform of 294, but is still an aureelianus with the mark XXI. This is the first time that we are offering this type for sale which seems rarer than the general works suggest.
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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