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v27_0233 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
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Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290 - 291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,64 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 2e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, ovale, bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Magnifique portrait consulaire de Maximien. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la trouvaille n° 1 et de la liste Paul-Francis Jacquier 15, été 1993, n° 564
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Maximien Hercule à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (H).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Maximien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - 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. Avec cet aurelianus, nous sommes en présence d’une pièce avec la bonne titulature au nom de Maximien, mais avec un portrait de Dioclétien (cf. Bastien n° 321a et b, pl. XXIII pour Dioclétien). Ce cas est déjà signalé dans le Supplément II de Bastien, op. cit. p. 78. Nous n’avons relevé aucune liaison de coin pertinente. Cet exemplaire sera publié sous le numéro 385e techn. dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With its silver plating in full. With this aurelianus, we are in the presence of a coin with the correct title in the name of Maximian, but with a portrait of Diocletian (cf. Bastian no. 321a and b, pl. XXIII for Diocletian). This case is already noted in Supplement II of Bastian, op. cit. p. 78. We have not noted any relevant die bond. This example will be published under the number 385e techn. in Supplement III of Bastian
With its silver plating in full. With this aurelianus, we are in the presence of a coin with the correct title in the name of Maximian, but with a portrait of Diocletian (cf. Bastian no. 321a and b, pl. XXIII for Diocletian). This case is already noted in Supplement II of Bastian, op. cit. p. 78. We have not noted any relevant die bond. This example will be published under the number 385e techn. in Supplement III of Bastian
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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