v08_0546 - DOMITIUS DOMITIANUS Octodrachme

MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 1 448.27 €
Estimate : 2 286.74 €
unsold lot

Type : Octodrachme

Date: an 2

Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte

Metal : copper

Diameter : 22 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 12,79 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Patine brune. Beau portrait / Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers sur Sérapis

Catalogue references :

BMC.16/336-2623 var. (hexadrachm) - Milne5245 var. - Curtis2134 - MRKA.- - - GIC.4801 var. (hexadrachm)

Obverse

Obverse description : Tête radiée de Domitius Domitianus à droite (O).

Obverse legend : DOMITI-ANOS SEB.

Obverse translation : (Domitien auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : LB.

Reverse description : Sérapis marchant à droite, coiffé du modius, vêtu du chiton et de l'himation, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre transversal de la main gauche ; derrière une palme à gauche.

Reverse translation : (an 2).

Historical background

DOMITIUS DOMITIANUS

(07/296-03/297)

Lucius Domitius Domitianus, also known as Achilleus, rebels against Diocletian in Alexandria around July 296. The revolt lasts for two Alexandrian years. Diocletian must go to Egypt to crush it. Domitianus, during his reign, tries to reform the Alexandrian monetary system. In addition to very rare maddies, he minted several Alexandrian denominations, the production of which ceased at the time of the reform. In particular, he creates two radiated species, an octodrachm worth twice the tetradrachm, of about 12.60 g (12.63 g Milne and ours of 12.79 g), the hexadrachm (NFA. XII-441, 8 .49g); two laureate pieces, the tetradrachm and the didrachm. After the fall of Alexandria and the death of Domitianus, Diocletian definitively abolishes the colonial workshop and restores the imperial workshop.