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brm_222736 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 45.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 45.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 291-294
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,46 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de haut relief. Joli revers avec une usure superficielle. Très jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Caius Valère Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA MI-LITVM/ B// XXI..
Reverse description : Dioclétien debout à droite en habit militaire, tenant de la main gauche un parazonium, et recevant un globe nicéphore de Jupiter nu, debout, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche et appuyé sur un sceptre.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Militum”, (La Concorde des soldats).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ce type existe aussi pour les ateliers de Cyzique et d’Antioche. Il n’y a pas de ptéryges sous le paludamentum.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. This type also exists for the Cyzicus and Antioch mints. There are no pteryges under the paludamentum.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. This type also exists for the Cyzicus and Antioch mints. There are no 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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