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brm_149025 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus

DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus AU
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: été
Date: 287
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique portrait avec un buste consulaire de grand style. Faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Très jolie patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés. Pièce ayant conservé sa fraîcheur de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :
RIC.39  - C.180  - B.105 (4 ex.)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Dioclétien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Diocletianus Pius Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Dioclétien pieux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : IOVI CONSE-R AVGG/ -|A//SML.
Reverse description : Jupiter debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche tournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter protecteur des augustes).

Commentary

La lettre d'atelier est légèrement tronquée.

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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