v27_0229 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
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Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290 - 291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,14 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 2e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large, ovale, épais, complet des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait de haut relief. Revers de toute beauté. Aurelianus ayant conservé son éclat et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la trouvaille n° 1 et de ROME I, n° 76
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Maximien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PA-X - A-VGG/ -|-// B.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un long sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augustorum”, (La Paix des augustes).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Nous n’avons relevé aucune liaison de coin pertinente. Cet exemplaire présente un cas intéressant de retouche de légende avec les lettres DIOCLET sous MAXIM. Ces cas de modifications de légende sans être courant se rencontrent quand on y prête attention. Daniel Gricourt, Aureliani de l’atelier de Lyon sous l’empereur Dioclétien : enquête et données nouvelles, RBN. CXXX, 1984, p. 68, n° 8, pl. III signalait un cas similaire pour la septième émission et fournissait quelques hypothèses de travail, RBN 1984, op. cit., p. 97-99 dans “Questions d’épigraphie et d’iconographie monétaires”. Cet exemplaire prendra le numéro 379f techn. dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all its silver plating. We have not noted any relevant die bonds. This example presents an interesting case of legend retouching with the letters DIOCLET under MAXIM. These cases of legend modifications, without being common, are encountered when one pays attention to them. Daniel Gricourt, Aureliani of the Lyon workshop under the emperor Diocletian: investigation and new data, RBN. CXXX, 1984, p. 68, no. 8, pl. III reported a similar case for the seventh issue and provided some working hypotheses, RBN 1984, op. cit., p. 97-99 in “Questions of monetary epigraphy and iconography”. This example will take the number 379f techn. in Supplement III of Bastien
With all its silver plating. We have not noted any relevant die bonds. This example presents an interesting case of legend retouching with the letters DIOCLET under MAXIM. These cases of legend modifications, without being common, are encountered when one pays attention to them. Daniel Gricourt, Aureliani of the Lyon workshop under the emperor Diocletian: investigation and new data, RBN. CXXX, 1984, p. 68, no. 8, pl. III reported a similar case for the seventh issue and provided some working hypotheses, RBN 1984, op. cit., p. 97-99 in “Questions of monetary epigraphy and iconography”. This example will take the number 379f 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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