brm_210094 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Quart d'aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Quart d'aurelianus
Date: 290
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 18,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,84 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, large et bien centré. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine noire granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, 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 : VIRTV-S AVGG.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout droite, tenant la massue de la main droite et un arc de la main gauche, la léonté tombant du bras.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Ce type appartient à une émission qui semble comprendre des as (M&M XIII n° 197 et 198), des deniers (M&M 199 et 200) et des quinaires (M&M n° 201 à 204). Ce revers semble attaché à Maximien Hercule et avoir été frappé avant 294 pour l’atelier de Rome. Les auteurs du RIC retenaient 290. Nous avions proposé un quinaire de ce type dans MONNAIES IX, n° 318 (275€).
Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryges under the paludamentum. This type belongs to an issue that appears to include aces (M&M XIII nos. 197 and 198), denarii (M&M 199 and 200), and quinaries (M&M nos. 201 to 204). This reverse appears to be associated with Maximian Hercules and to have been struck before 294 for the Roman mint. The authors of the RIC used 290. We proposed a quinary of this type in MONNAIES IX, no. 318 (€275)
Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryges under the paludamentum. This type belongs to an issue that appears to include aces (M&M XIII nos. 197 and 198), denarii (M&M 199 and 200), and quinaries (M&M nos. 201 to 204). This reverse appears to be associated with Maximian Hercules and to have been struck before 294 for the Roman mint. The authors of the RIC used 290. We proposed a quinary of this type in MONNAIES IX, no. 318 (€275)
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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