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brm_589371 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Follis ou nummus

MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Follis ou nummus XF
115.00 €(Approx. 125.35$ | 96.60£)
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 300-301
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,16 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré à l’usure régulière, bien lisible et identifiable. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Maximien Hercule à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperatore Cæsar Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Maximien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : SACRA MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN/ -|-// S(MASSUE).
Reverse description : Moneta (la Monnaie) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Sacra Moneta Urbis Augustorum et Cæsarum Nostrorum", (La Monnaie sacrée de la ville de nos augustes et de nos césars).

Commentary


La massue fait partie de la marque d’émission, normalement réservée aux Herculéens (d’Hercule, Maximien et Constance Ier), mais nous pouvons aussi rencontrer le foudre avec les mêmes lettres d’officine.

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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