brm_234568 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 35.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 35.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 293-295
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,88 g.
Officine: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince bien centré. Beau portrait. Frappe molle au revers. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques
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 avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA MIL-ITVM/ I// .XXI.
Reverse description : Dioclétien, recevant un globe nicéphore de Jupiter debout face à face ; Dioclétien est debout à gauche, lauré, vêtu militairement, tenant le scipio de la main gauche et Jupiter nu debout à droite, le manteau sur les épaules, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Militum”, (La Concorde des soldats).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec son argenture sueprficielle. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.
Lightweight. With its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Pteruges barely visible under the paludamentum
Lightweight. With its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Pteruges barely visible under the paludamentum
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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