v26_0445 - DIOCLETIAN Argenteus
MONNAIES 26 (2006)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Argenteus
Date: 300-301
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,00 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Portrait de toute beauté. Patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés au droit. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Flan large et complet des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Diocletianus Augustus”, (Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - MILITVM// (MASSUE).
Reverse description : Les Tétrarques, Dioclétien, Maximien, Constance et Galère, vêtus militairement, deux par deux, sacrifiant au-dessus d'un trépied allumé placé devant une enceinte composée de quatre tours.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Militum”, (La Virilité des soldats).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse et épaulière lisses. Ptéryges à peine visibles, lisses.
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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