brm_654184 - DIOCLETIAN Aureus
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Price : 1 200.00 €
Type : Aureus
Date: 286
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,11 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante qui reste bien identifiable avec un revers agréable. Traces de monture importantes ainsi qu’un trou rebouché à 12h
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, drapé sur l’épaule gauche .
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CO-NSER-VAT AVGG.
Reverse description : Jupiter nicéphore nu debout à gauche, le manteau flottant sur les épaule, tenant un foudre de la main droite tendue et un long sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter protecteur des Augustes).
Commentary
Monnaie montée anciennement.
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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