brm_282864 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 85.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 285
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,84 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et complet avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Dioclétien. Joli revers de style fin. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de 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 : MART-I - PACIF/ -|-// XXIE.
Reverse description : Mars ou Virtus debout à gauche, vêtu militairement, casqué, tenant une branche d'olivier de la main droite, un bouclier et une lance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Marti Pacifero" (À Mars pacificateur).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Pteryga barely visible under the paludamentum
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Pteryga barely visible 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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