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Live auction - brm_364468 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus

MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus AU
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Estimate : 450 €
Price : 595 €
Maximum bid : 650 €
End of the sale : 29 September 2015 15:07:15
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 293-294
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,91 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré. Beau portrait de Maximien Hercule. Revers tout à fait inhabituel. Patine gris foncé avec reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Lanz 147, 2 novembre 2009, n° 475 et de la collection de Daniel Compas

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C M VAL MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Valerius Maximianus Augustus” (L’empereur césar Marc Valère Maximien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VIRT-VS AVGG/ -|-// XXIBT.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à droite, s’appuyant de la main gauche sur sa massue posée verticalement sur un rocher, la main droite sur la hanche ; derrière, Victoriola posée sur un globe à droite et le couronnant de la main droite, tenant une couronne de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum” (La Virilité des augustes).

Commentary


Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle.

Historical background


MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS

(10/12/285-02/310)

Auguste I

Maximian was born in Sirmium around 250. He has "a low forehead, a wrinkled face, a trumpet nose, a thick chin and neck, a shaggy beard" according to "The Roman Emperors", op. cit., p. 119. This description does not look so much like the portraits of the argentei, which are stereotyped and not necessarily recognizable. He is chosen by Diocletian to assist him. He was first Caesar, then Augustus from April 286, and it was the foundation of the Diarchy. Maximien settles in Trèves and must fight against the barbarian invasions and the usurpation of Carausius in Brittany. In 293, when the Tetrarchy was created, he was assisted by Constantius Chlorus. Diocletian forces Maximian to abdicate on May 1, 305. He resents retirement and goes to support his son Maxentius when he seizes Rome on October 28, 306. He resumes service as august in 307 and helps Constantine to whom he gives his daughter Fausta in marriage. Maximian is forced to abdicate at the conference of Carnuntum, November 11, 308. One last time, he resumes the purple at the beginning of 310 in Marseilles before committing suicide or being assassinated.

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