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brm_335313 - DIOCLETIAN Aureus

DIOCLETIAN Aureus MS
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 6 800.00 €
Type : Aureus
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Cyzicus
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,54 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait de toute beauté de haut relief. Revers fantastique, où tous les détails de l’Empereur sont visibles. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine

Obverse


Obverse legend : DIO-CLETIANVS - AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Dioclétien à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Diocletianus Augustus” (Dioclétien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : CONSVL IIII - P P PROCOS.
Reverse description : Dioclétien, lauré, vêtu de la toge debout à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre court horizontal de la gauche ; petit point dans le champ inférieur gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consul quartum Pater Patriæ Proconsul” (Consul pour la quatrième fois, Père de la Patrie, proconsul).

Commentary


Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (New York).

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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