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brm_853258 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus

MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus MS
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: avril 286 - printemps 287
Date: 286-287
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire, sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait magnifique de toute beauté. Revers fantastique. Très jolie patine gris doré avec des reflets métalliques
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Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur Maximien pieux et heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : IOVI CONSER-VAT AVGG/ -|-// XXIZ.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter protecteur des augustes).

Commentary


Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Les ptéryges sont à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Pan de l’égide qui pointe sur l’épaule gauche.

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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