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brm_519423 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus

DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus VF/AU
280.00 €(Approx. 302.40$ | 240.80£)
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: début 293 - 1/03/293
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,60 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale. Usure importante au droit mais très beau revers ! Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
B.463 (10 ex.) - RIC.5  - C.383  - ROME 1/-  - Compas-

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : P M TR P VIII COS IIII P P/ -|-// A*.
Reverse description : Lion radié marchant à gauche, tenant un foudre dans la gueule.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate octavum Consul quartum Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la huitième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la quatrième fois père de la patrie).

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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