brm_900807 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 285-286
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,05 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Dioclétien. Joli revers de frappe un peu molle. Belle patine grise avec des reflets dorés
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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 : IOVI CONSER-VAT AVG/ .|.// XXI(GAMMA) .
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout de face regardant à gauche, avec le manteau sur l’épaule gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Augusti”, (À Jupiter protecteur de L’auguste.
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Variété rare signalée dans l’ouvrage de Daniel Gricouurt, (pl. 52, n° 7280-7288).
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. Rare variety reported in the work of Daniel Gricouurt, (pl. 52, n° 7280-7288)
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. Rare variety reported in the work of Daniel Gricouurt, (pl. 52, n° 7280-7288)
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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