brm_900890 - DIOCLETIAN 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 : 23,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,27 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1e
Coments on the condition:
Portrait de toute beauté sur un flan large, ovale et épais. Joli revers de frappe un peu molle. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la trouvaille n° 1, de ROME I, 1995, n° 32 et de la collection Daniel Compas, MONNAIES XXVII, n° 165
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Caius Valère Dioclétien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI T-VTATORI AVGG/ -|-// P.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche, tournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Tutatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter protecteur des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec toute son argenture. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
Historical background
DIOCLETIAN
(20/11/284-1/05/305)
Augustus
Diocletian, born in 245 in Dalmatia (Split), is an Illyrian emperor. After having eliminated Aper, prefect of the praetorium, also father-in-law and assassin of Numérien, he put on the purple on November 20, 284. Fighting first against Carin, last son of Carus, he was beaten at Margus the following year. But Carin is assassinated and Diocletian alone remains august. He raised Maximian, a compatriot, to the rank of Caesar in November 285, then Augustus on April 1, 286. Diocletian had just created a new political regime, the dyarchy. Two emperors shared military and political power there, but Maximian remained subordinate to Diocletian. Diocletian places himself under the Jovian protection (of Jupiter) while Maximian is of Herculean essence (of Hercules). Diocletian spent the first ten years of his reign fighting in the East, while Maximian remained in the West. Diocletian is the first emperor of the Lower Empire, according to the expression of Gibbons, and the founder of the dominion.
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