brm_244758 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 40.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 40.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: juillet 285 - 1er avril 286
Date: 285-286
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,88 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Beau portrait. Frappe molle au revers. Patine marron foncé
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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 : SALV-S AVG/ -|B// - .
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à droite, tenant une patère de la main gauche et nourrissant un serpent qu'elle tient de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augusti”, (La Santé de l’auguste).
Commentary
Sans argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
Without surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum
Without surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges 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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