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brm_781872 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus

MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus AU
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 286-288
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,13 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan centré. Beau buste de Maximien Hercule. Joli revers inhabituel. Belle patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés
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Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C M VAL MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste de Maximien radié à droite, avec cuirasse et paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Marcus Valerius Maximianus Augustus".

Reverse


Reverse legend : IOVI - CONS-ERVAT// SXXIT.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche regardant à droite avec le manteau déployé derrière lui, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche ; à ses pieds, à gauche, un aigle ; derrière lui, à droite, deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : "Iovi Conservatori" (A Jupiter le Protecteur).

Commentary


Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.

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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