brm_194122 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Price : 105.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 105.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: juillet 285 - 1er avril 286
Date: 285-286
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,31 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Usure régulière. Joli revers inhabituel. Patine marron foncé lissée
Catalogue references :
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 Valère Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICI-TAS AVG/ -|C// -.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée,debout à gauche, les jambes croisées, tenant un caduce de la main droite, le coude gauche appuyé sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Augusti”, (La Félicité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. C’est la première fois que nous proposons un aurelianus de ce type. Sera publié dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Without silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. This is the first time we have proposed an aurelianus of this type. Will be published in Supplement III of Bastien
Without silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. This is the first time we have proposed an aurelianus of this type. Will be published 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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