brm_900946 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début - été
Date: 287
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,18 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré. Très joli buste finement détaillé. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection P. L.
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS A-VGG/ A// SML.
Reverse description : Jupiter à gauche et Hercule à droite, debout face à face se serrant la main ; Jupiter tient une haste longue de la main gauche avec le manteau flottant sur l'épaule droite ; Hercule tient sa massue de la main gauche autour de laquelle est enroulée la léonté.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. C’est le sixième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéro 108d dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Fine pteryga barely visible under the paludamentum. This is the sixth example recorded. Will take number 108d in Supplement III of Bastien
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Fine pteryga barely visible under the paludamentum. This is the sixth example recorded. Will take number 108d 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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