brm_173601 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,26 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré. Très beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés, granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI TVTATORI AVGG/ -|-// P.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche, tournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Tutatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter protecteur des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Nous n’avons pas noté de liaison de coin pertinente. C’est le cinquième exemplaire signalé. Prendra le numéro 152d dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Heavyweight. With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. We did not note any relevant die bond. This is the fifth example reported. Will take number 152d in Supplement III of Bastien
Heavyweight. With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. We did not note any relevant die bond. This is the fifth example reported. Will take number 152d 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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