v36_0774 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
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Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290-291
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,45 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle au droit, fruste au revers. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers mou. Magnifique patine de collection avec des reflets mordorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Maximien Hercule à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, levant la main droite (H3).
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
Poids légér. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. La robe consulaire est richement décorée. Malgré la rareté évidente du type de buste (H3), nous n’avons relevé aucune liaison de coin pertinente. Pour ce type, nous aurions donc six coins de droit et sept coins de revers pour sept exemplaires. Cet exemplaire prendra le numéro 388f dans le Supplément III du Bastien. Cet exemplaire présente de grandes similitudes pour le revers avec celui de la collection Daniel Compas, MONNAIES XXVII, n° 236.
Lightweight. With all its silver plating. The consular robe is richly decorated. Despite the obvious rarity of the bust type (H3), we have not noted any relevant die connections. For this type, we would therefore have six obverse dies and seven reverse dies for seven examples. This example will take the number 388f in Supplement III of Bastien. This example shows great similarities for the reverse with that of the Daniel Compas collection, COINS XXVII, no. 236
Lightweight. With all its silver plating. The consular robe is richly decorated. Despite the obvious rarity of the bust type (H3), we have not noted any relevant die connections. For this type, we would therefore have six obverse dies and seven reverse dies for seven examples. This example will take the number 388f in Supplement III of Bastien. This example shows great similarities for the reverse with that of the Daniel Compas collection, COINS XXVII, no. 236
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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