v28_0370 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 287
Mint name / Town : Pannonie Supérieure, Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 4,28 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large et complet des deux côtés. Portrait très large et de haut relief. Revers inhabituel. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Valère Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSERVATOR AVGG/ A-|// .XXI.I..
Reverse description : Dioclétien et Jupiter debout face à face sacrifiant au-dessus d'un trépied allumé ; Dioclétien est debout à gauche, vêtu militairement, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche et une patère de la main droite ; Jupiter est nu debout à droite, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche et une patère de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Conservator Augustorum”, (Conservateur des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Cuirasse cloutée. Épaulière cloutée et ptéryges fines. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Heavyweight. With full silver plating. Studded breastplate. Studded shoulder guard and fine pteryges. This type appears to be much rarer than general works suggest.
Heavyweight. With full silver plating. Studded breastplate. Studded shoulder guard and fine pteryges. This type appears to be much rarer than 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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