E-auction 108-57387 - brm_262344 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 145 € |
| Price : | 76 € |
| Maximum bid : | 78 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 May 2015 15:40:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 294
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 25,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,22 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement large, ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait à l’usure superficielle. Revers inhabituel à la frappe un peu molle. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (C01).
Obverse translation : “Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste”.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - A-E-TERN/ -|-// A.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Æterna”, (La Paix éternelle).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Casque orné et décoré avec la visière festonnée. Couvre nuque orné d’une croisette cantonnée de quatre globules. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente. Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. C’est le cinquième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéros 607c dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Lightweight. With all its surface silvering. Ornate and decorated helmet with scalloped visor. Neck cover decorated with a crosslet surrounded by four globules. Studded cuirass and shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale. We have not noted any relevant die identity. This is the fifth example recorded. Will take the number 607c in Supplement III of Bastien
Lightweight. With all its surface silvering. Ornate and decorated helmet with scalloped visor. Neck cover decorated with a crosslet surrounded by four globules. Studded cuirass and shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale. We have not noted any relevant die identity. This is the fifth example recorded. Will take the number 607c 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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