brm_244926 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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Price : 115.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24,50 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,87 g.
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Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement large, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait. Frappe molle au revers. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques marron glacé, légèrement piquée au droit dans la légende
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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 : VIRTVTI AVGG.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à droite, étranglant le lion de Némée ; à ses pieds derrière lui, sa massue.
Reverse translation : “Virtuti Augustorum”, (À la Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Le casque est orné de points, la visière d’un globule, le couvre nuque de trois points. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines et tombantes. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire du Staatlische Museen de Berlin, (B. 315e, pl. XV) présentant une cassure de coin de revers au niveau du U de Virtuti.
With all of its surface silvering. The helmet is decorated with dots, the visor with a globule, the neck cover with three dots. Studded cuirass and shoulder guard. Thin, drooping pteryges. Same reverse die as the copy in the Staatlische Museen in Berlin, (B. 315e, pl. XV) with a reverse die break at the level of the U in Virtuti
With all of its surface silvering. The helmet is decorated with dots, the visor with a globule, the neck cover with three dots. Studded cuirass and shoulder guard. Thin, drooping pteryges. Same reverse die as the copy in the Staatlische Museen in Berlin, (B. 315e, pl. XV) with a reverse die break at the level of the U in Virtuti
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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