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Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,37 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince, large, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait, finement détaillé. Joli revers avec une très belle léonté sur le bras d’Hercule. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection P. L.
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (C01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Maximien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HERCVLI INVICTO AVGG/ S|-// -.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et la léonté enroulée autour du bras gauche, s'appuyant sur sa massue.
Reverse translation : “Herculi Invicto Augustorum”, (À l’Hercule invincible des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Le casque de Maximien est décoré et clouté. Couvre nuque orné de trois clous posés verticalement. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne n° 23.865, Bastien n° 179b, pl. XII. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Bastien n° 179c, pl. XII et que l’exemplaire de la collection Daniel Compas, MONNAIES XXVII, n° 176. C’est le sixième exemplaire publié. Prendra le numéro 179 e dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Lightweight. With all of its surface silvering. Maximian's helmet is decorated and studded. Neck cover decorated with three vertically placed studs. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. Same corners as the example from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna n° 23.865, Bastien n° 179b, pl. XII. Same obverse die as the example from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Bastien n° 179c, pl. XII and the example from the Daniel Compas collection, MONNAIES XXVII, n° 176. This is the sixth example published. Will take number 179 in Supplement III of Bastien
Lightweight. With all of its surface silvering. Maximian's helmet is decorated and studded. Neck cover decorated with three vertically placed studs. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. Same corners as the example from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna n° 23.865, Bastien n° 179b, pl. XII. Same obverse die as the example from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Bastien n° 179c, pl. XII and the example from the Daniel Compas collection, MONNAIES XXVII, n° 176. This is the sixth example published. Will take number 179 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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