brm_781507 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 294
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,12 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, centré à l’usure régulière, plus marquée au revers qu’au droit. Patine noire granuleuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Dioclétien à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES - MILIT// PTR.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) debout à gauche, tenant une enseigne dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité de l’armée).
Commentary
Trèves reste un atelier particulièrement rare et recherché pour cette période. C’est la deuxième fois que nous présentons ce type ! Aucun exemplaire de ce type ne semble être passé en vente ces vingt dernières années.
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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