v24_0652 - DIOCLETIAN Aureus
MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 5 800.00 €
Estimate : 12 000.00 €
Realised price : 7 100.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 7 480.00 €
Starting price : 5 800.00 €
Estimate : 12 000.00 €
Realised price : 7 100.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 7 480.00 €
Type : Aureus
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Asie, Cyzique
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,39 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle. Très beau portrait. Revers de haut relief. Aureus ayant conservé son brillant et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection du Sud de la France
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
Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié avec la taille au 1/50 L. (poids lourd) et avec un point dans le champ du revers. La variété avec le sceptre horizontal est déjà beaucoup plus rare en elle-même. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés. Nous pourrions avoir affaire à un “festaureus” comme l’école autrichienne les nomme.
Seems to be completely unpublished and unlisted with the size at 1/50 L. (heavy weight) and with a dot in the reverse field. The variety with the horizontal scepter is already much rarer in itself. Missing from all consulted works. We could be dealing with a “festaureus” as the Austrian school calls them
Seems to be completely unpublished and unlisted with the size at 1/50 L. (heavy weight) and with a dot in the reverse field. The variety with the horizontal scepter is already much rarer in itself. Missing from all consulted works. We could be dealing with a “festaureus” as the Austrian school calls them
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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