v27_0241 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290 - 291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,47 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait inhabituel de Dioclétien où tous les détails de la trabea sont visibles. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise, légèrement granuleuse avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Dioclétien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un globe de la main droite (H1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS - AVGG/ -|-// C.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à droite, tenant une patère de la main droite et nourrissant un serpent de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augustorum”, (La Santé des augustes).
Commentary
Avec son argenture. Poids léger. Buste consulaire où tous les détails de la trabea sont bien visibles. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne n° 23.474, Bastien n° 401b, pl. XXIX. C’est le quatrième exemplaire publié. Nous avons deux coins de droit et deux coins de revers. Cet exemplaire prendra le n° 401c dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With its silver plating. Lightweight. Consular bust where all the details of the trabea are clearly visible. Same dies as the example from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna no. 23.474, Bastien no. 401b, pl. XXIX. This is the fourth published example. We have two obverse dies and two reverse dies. This example will take the no. 401c in Supplement III of Bastien
With its silver plating. Lightweight. Consular bust where all the details of the trabea are clearly visible. Same dies as the example from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna no. 23.474, Bastien no. 401b, pl. XXIX. This is the fourth published example. We have two obverse dies and two reverse dies. This example will take the no. 401c 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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