v27_0250 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290 - 291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,76 g.
Officine: 3e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré. Beau portrait. Très joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Claude Burgan n° 20, 16 décembre 1989, n° 564
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Maximien Hercule à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Maximien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS - AVGG/ -|-// C.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à droite, tenant une patère de la main droite et nourrissant un serpent de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augustorum”, (La Santé des augustes).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. La trabea (robe consulaire) est richement ornementée. La légende de droit est particulière. le deuxième I de MAXIMIANVS a la forme d’un L renversé et les lettres MAXIM semblent regravées DIOCLET, mais sans certitude. Nous notons un début de cassure de coin dans la légende du droit. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de la collection Bastien, Bastien n° 416g, pl. XXX. Prendra le numéro 416h techn. dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With its superficial silver plating. The trabea (consular robe) is richly ornamented. The obverse legend is unusual. The second I of MAXIMIANVS has the shape of an inverted L and the letters MAXIM seem to be re-engraved DIOCLET, but without certainty. We note the beginning of a die break in the obverse legend. Same reverse die as the copy in the Bastien collection, Bastien no. 416g, pl. XXX. Will take the number 416h techn. in Supplement III of Bastien
With its superficial silver plating. The trabea (consular robe) is richly ornamented. The obverse legend is unusual. The second I of MAXIMIANVS has the shape of an inverted L and the letters MAXIM seem to be re-engraved DIOCLET, but without certainty. We note the beginning of a die break in the obverse legend. Same reverse die as the copy in the Bastien collection, Bastien no. 416g, pl. XXX. Will take the number 416h techn. in Supplement III of Bastien
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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