v27_0283 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 20/11/293 - 31/12/293
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Emission: 11e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan étroit et épais, légèrement piqué au droit. Très beau revers avec une jolie patine avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la trouvaille n° 1 et de ROME I, 1995, n° 112
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 Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS AVGG/ -|-// III.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à droite, tenant un arc et la léonté de la main gauche et appuyé de la main droite sur sa massue.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne, collection Voetter n° 67254, Bastien n° 574a, pl. XLI. C’est le neuvième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéro 574i dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With its superficial silver plating. Same corners as the example in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Voetter collection no. 67254, Bastien no. 574a, pl. XLI. This is the ninth example recorded. Will take the number 574i in Supplement III of Bastien
With its superficial silver plating. Same corners as the example in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Voetter collection no. 67254, Bastien no. 574a, pl. XLI. This is the ninth example recorded. Will take the number 574i 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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