brm_274679 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: décembre
Date: 308
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,59 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure régulière. Très beau portrait de Maximien Hercule. joli revers à l’usure plus prononcée et régulière. Patine verte granuleuse
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire est indiqué comme provenant de la trouvaille du Touvet (inconnue par ailleurs) et de la collection du baron L. Chaurand (Lyon)
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Maximien auguste à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Valerius Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Valère Maximien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TEMPORV-M FELICITAS/ -|-// PLG.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et un caducée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Temporum Felicitas”, (Les temps de la Félicité).
Commentary
Type exceptionnel et rarissime que nous proposons pour la première fois à la venteet qui n’est connu que pour l’atelier de Lyon ! C’est le deuxième exemplaire recensé. Cet exemplaire est cité et illustré dans l’ouvrage de Pierre Bastien (B., p. 240, n° 496e, pl. LV).
An exceptional and extremely rare type that we are offering for sale for the first time and which is only known from the Lyon workshop! This is the second example recorded. This example is cited and illustrated in the work of Pierre Bastien (B., p. 240, no. 496e, pl. LV)
An exceptional and extremely rare type that we are offering for sale for the first time and which is only known from the Lyon workshop! This is the second example recorded. This example is cited and illustrated in the work of Pierre Bastien (B., p. 240, no. 496e, pl. LV)
Historical background
MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS
(10/12/285-02/310)
Augustus II
Maximian was born in Sirmium around 250. He had "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 bears little resemblance to the portraits of argentei, which are stereotyped and not necessarily recognizable. Chosen by Diocletian to assist him, he was first Caesar, then august from April 286. It was the Dyarchy. 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 on 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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