Live auction - brm_391244 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aureus
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| Estimate : | 25 000 € |
| Price : | 15 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 15 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 28 June 2016 15:31:28 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aureus
Date: 297
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : gold
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,35 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire dans un état de conservation remarquable. Portrait de très haut relief qui semble sortir de la monnaie ! Fine usure sur la barbe. Joli revers à l’usure superficielle, parfaitement centré avec les grènetis visibles. Magnifique patine aux reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MAXIMIA-NVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Maximien Hercule à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus” (Maximien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PACATORES G-E-NTIVM// TR.
Reverse description : Maximien debout à gauche dans un quadrige de face, tenant un rameau de la main droite ; le char est conduit par un soldat à pied dans le champ à droite.
Reverse translation : “Pacatores Gentium” (Les pacificateurs des nations).
Commentary
Type avec le portrait plus large, probablement réalisé par les nouveaux graveurs qui seraient arrivés pendant la courte fermeture de l’atelier en 296. Semble de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Georges Depeyrot, conservé au Musée de Vienne mais dans un état de conservation trop déplorable pour être absolument certain. Un seul autre exemplaire est passé en vente ces dix dernières années. Il a réalisé 27000€ hors frais en 2011 (Auction 89, H.D. Rauch, 5 décembre 2011), mais avec un portrait mince.
Type with the larger portrait, probably made by the new engravers who arrived during the short closure of the workshop in 296. Seems to have the same obverse die as the example reproduced in the work of Georges Depeyrot, kept at the Vienna Museum but in a state of conservation too poor to be absolutely certain. Only one other example has come up for sale in the last ten years. It achieved €27,000 excluding fees in 2011 (Auction 89, HD Rauch, December 5, 2011), but with a thin portrait
Type with the larger portrait, probably made by the new engravers who arrived during the short closure of the workshop in 296. Seems to have the same obverse die as the example reproduced in the work of Georges Depeyrot, kept at the Vienna Museum but in a state of conservation too poor to be absolutely certain. Only one other example has come up for sale in the last ten years. It achieved €27,000 excluding fees in 2011 (Auction 89, HD Rauch, December 5, 2011), but with a thin portrait
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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