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Price : 65.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 65.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 285-286
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,46 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et large, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers inhabituel. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Valère Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES MILIT-VM/ A// XXI.
Reverse description : Dioclétien et Jupiter debout face à face ; Dioclétien vêtu militairement est debout à gauche, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche recevant un globe de Jupiter qui est debout à droiten nu avec le manteau flottant et tenant un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori”, (À Jupiter protecteur).
Commentary
Sans son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Sur cet exemplaire, le buste est seulement drapé. Il n’y a pas de trace des ptéryges ou de la cuirasse. C’est la première fois que nous proosons ce type à la vente. Au revers, le second personnage est parfois décrit comme un soldat, il fait plutôt penser à Sol.
Without its superficial silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. On this example, the bust is only draped. There is no trace of the pteryga or the armor. This is the first time we are offering this type for sale. On the reverse, the second character is sometimes described as a soldier, he is more reminiscent of Sol
Without its superficial silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. On this example, the bust is only draped. There is no trace of the pteryga or the armor. This is the first time we are offering this type for sale. On the reverse, the second character is sometimes described as a soldier, he is more reminiscent of Sol
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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