v27_0273 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 120.00 €
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 120.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 1/03/293 - 20/11/293
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,73 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Emission: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, légèrement irrégulier. Portrait de qualité exceptionnelle. Revers de haut relief et de style fin. Magnifique patine avec des reflets mordorés. Aurelianus ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - A-VGG/ -|-// C.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un long sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augustorum”, (La Paix des augustes).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Sur cet exemplaire, l’épaulière n’est pas ornée de ptéryges, mais d’un motif décoratif déjà rencontré sur plusieurs exemplaires. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Nationalmuseet de Copenhague, Bastien, n° 514b, pl. XXXVII. C’est le neuvième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le n° 514d dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all its silver plating. On this example, the shoulder guard is not decorated with pteryges, but with a decorative motif already found on several examples. Same obverse die as the example in the Nationalmuseet of Copenhagen, Bastien, no. 514b, pl. XXXVII. This is the ninth example recorded. Will take no. 514d in Supplement III of Bastien
With all its silver plating. On this example, the shoulder guard is not decorated with pteryges, but with a decorative motif already found on several examples. Same obverse die as the example in the Nationalmuseet of Copenhagen, Bastien, no. 514b, pl. XXXVII. This is the ninth example recorded. Will take no. 514d in Supplement III of Bastien
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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