brm_261567 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290-291
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,24 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et très mince, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets.Très beau portrait, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets marron glacé. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Pius Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSERVATORI AVGG/ -|-// A.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) et Jupiter debout face à face ; Victoria est drapée, tenant une couronne de la main droite un globe de la main gauche qu’elle tend à Jupiter ; Jupiter est nu debout à droite, tourné à gauche, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter conservateur des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges presque invisible sous le paludamentum. Semble complètement inédit et non répetorié. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire du British Museum (B. 341a, pl. XXIV). Prendra le numéro 339(alpha)a dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Heavyweight. No silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges almost invisible under the paludamentum. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from all consulted works. Same reverse die as the British Museum copy (B. 341a, pl. XXIV). Will take the number 339(alpha)a in Bastien's Supplement III
Heavyweight. No silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges almost invisible under the paludamentum. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from all consulted works. Same reverse die as the British Museum copy (B. 341a, pl. XXIV). Will take the number 339(alpha)a in Bastien's Supplement III
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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