brm_336795 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,43 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré. Joli portrait. Revers de haut relief. Patine gris foncé aux reflets métalliques. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C 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 Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI TVTAT-ORI AVGG/ -|-// P.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau tombant sur l'épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche, tournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Tutatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter protecteur des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrméités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
Heavyweight. With its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum
Heavyweight. With its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum
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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