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v21_3430 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus

MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus AU
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: c. 290
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Antioche (Antiochia ad Orontem)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,93 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Portrait taillé à la serpe. Patine gris vert avec des reflets métalliques. Avec son argenture superficielle. Revers de toute beauté
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Maximien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : IOV ET HERCV CONSER AVGG/ E// .XXI.
Reverse description : Jupiter et Hercule debout face à face ; Jupiter debout à gauche, tourné à droite, nu, le manteau flottant sur l’épaule, tenant un long sceptre vertical de la main gauche et un globe de la main droite ; Hercule est debout à droite, tourné à gauche, nu, tenant une victoriola de la main droite et la massue de la main gauche, la léonté enroulée sur le bras.
Reverse translation : “Iovi et Herculi Conservatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter et Hercule protecteurs des augustes).

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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