v27_0327 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
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Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 300-302
Date: 300 - mi 304
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,79 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Emission: 8e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré. Portrait magnifique servi par un très jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques mordorés. Faiblesse de frappe sur la cuirasse. Revers de haut relief. Faiblesse de frappe sur la fin de légende de revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Maximien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI/ (AUTEL)|A// PLG.
Reverse description : Genius (Génie) debout à gauche, coiffé du modius, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au Génie du Peuple romain).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle (3%). Poids léger. Rubans convergents : rubans descendant verticalement le long de la nuque ou légèrement incurvés vers l’arrière (type 3). Cuirasse lisse. Notre exemplaire est très proche de l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF, AF. n° 8.204, Bastien n° 237b, pl. XXII. C’est le sixième exemplaire recensé avec cette césure. Prendra le numéro 237f dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all of its surface silvering (3%). Light weight. Converging ribbons: ribbons descending vertically along the nape of the neck or slightly curved towards the back (type 3). Smooth cuirass. Our example is very close to the example in the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF, AF. n° 8.204, Bastien n° 237b, pl. XXII. This is the sixth example recorded with this caesura. Will take the number 237f in Supplement III of Bastien
With all of its surface silvering (3%). Light weight. Converging ribbons: ribbons descending vertically along the nape of the neck or slightly curved towards the back (type 3). Smooth cuirass. Our example is very close to the example in the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF, AF. n° 8.204, Bastien n° 237b, pl. XXII. This is the sixth example recorded with this caesura. Will take the number 237f 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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