brm_487861 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Price : 210.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 210.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290 - 291
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,81 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait inhabituel de Dioclétien à l’usure superficielle. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection L. P
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Dioclétien à gauche, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant, bouclier sur l’épaule gauche (B3).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOV-I - A-VGG/ -|-// A.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche, détournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Augustorum”, (Au Jupiter des augustes).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Bouclier avec umbo. Cuirasse cloutée. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’Ashmolean Museum d’Oxford, Bastien n° 316c, pl. XXII et que l’exemplaire de la collection Daniel Compas, MONNAIES XXVII, n° 209. Pour ce type nous avons quatre coins de droit pour quatre coins de revers et huit exemplaires.
With its superficial silver plating. Shield with umbo. Studded cuirass. Same obverse die as the copy in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Bastien no. 316c, pl. XXII and the copy in the Daniel Compas collection, COINS XXVII, no. 209. For this type we have four obverse dies for four reverse dies and eight examples
With its superficial silver plating. Shield with umbo. Studded cuirass. Same obverse die as the copy in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Bastien no. 316c, pl. XXII and the copy in the Daniel Compas collection, COINS XXVII, no. 209. For this type we have four obverse dies for four reverse dies and eight examples
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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