v27_0170 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 120.00 €
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 120.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,15 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Dioclétien avec la titulature courte. Revers de bon style. Aurelianus ayant conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe, mais légèrement piqué au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la trouvaille n° 1
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI TV-TATORI AVGG/ -|-// P.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche, tournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Tutatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter protecteur des augustes).
Commentary
Avec toute son argenture. Poids léger. Infime trace de cassure de coin dans la légende au droit ou traces du compas pour placer la légende. Cas de césure de revers non signalé dans l’ouvrage de Bastien pour ce numéro, mais signalé par exemple pour Bastien n° 150c, pl. X. Nous n’avons pas noté de liaison de coin pertinente. Prendra le numéro 149c dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all its silver plating. Light weight. Slight trace of die breakage in the legend on the obverse or traces of the compass to place the legend. Case of reverse caesura not reported in Bastien's work for this issue, but reported for example for Bastien n° 150c, pl. X. We have not noted any relevant die connection. Will take number 149c in Supplement III of Bastien
With all its silver plating. Light weight. Slight trace of die breakage in the legend on the obverse or traces of the compass to place the legend. Case of reverse caesura not reported in Bastien's work for this issue, but reported for example for Bastien n° 150c, pl. X. We have not noted any relevant die connection. Will take number 149c 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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