brm_900921 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,85 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Officine: 1e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Métal légèrement piqué. Buste finement détaillé. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F 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 Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI TVTATORI 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 l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Magnifique buste consulaire avec la toga picta et la toga palmata richement ornementé. Semble complètement inédit et non recensé. Manque aux ouvrages consultés avec cette variante de légende de droit (P F). Prendra le numéro 144 alpha dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Magnificent consular bust with the toga picta and the richly ornamented toga palmata. Seems completely new and unrecorded. Missing from the works consulted with this variant of the legal legend (PF). Will take number 144 alpha in Supplement III of Bastien
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Magnificent consular bust with the toga picta and the richly ornamented toga palmata. Seems completely new and unrecorded. Missing from the works consulted with this variant of the legal legend (PF). Will take number 144 alpha 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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