brm_961309 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 4,20 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Belle monnaie sur flan large et centré, présentant une faiblesse à six heures au droit et onze heures au revers. De très jolis détails autrement. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C VAL 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 Cæsar Valerius Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Valerius 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
Type qui semble non recensé avec cette légende de droit, habituellement associée à la même légende de revers mais avec un Hercule tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et s’appuyant sur sa massue de la gauche, la léonté sur l’avant-bras gauche (Bastien 191, 3 ex.).
Type which seems not to be recorded with this legend on the right, usually associated with the same legend on the reverse but with a Hercules holding a Nicephorus globe in his right hand and leaning on his club with his left, the lion on his left forearm (Bastien 191, 3 ex.)
Type which seems not to be recorded with this legend on the right, usually associated with the same legend on the reverse but with a Hercules holding a Nicephorus globe in his right hand and leaning on his club with his left, the lion on his left forearm (Bastien 191, 3 ex.)
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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