v36_0761 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 288
Mint name / Town : Pannonie Supérieure, Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Très beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Dioclétien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Diocletianus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSERVATO-R AVGG/ -|-// XXI(GAMMA).
Reverse description : Dioclétien en habit militaire debout à droite, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche, et sacrifiant sur un autel en présence de Jupiter nu debout à gauche, qui tient un sceptre de la main droite et une patère de la gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche.
Reverse translation : "Conservator Augustorum", (Le Protecteur des augustes).
Commentary
Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3. Buste consulaire richement décoré. Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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