Live auction - brm_780127 - DIOCLETIAN Argenteus
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| Estimate : | 800 € |
| Price : | 460 € |
| Maximum bid : | 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 December 2022 15:24:49 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Argenteus
Date: 300-301
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,01 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, épais, idéalement centré. Très beau revers ainsi qu’un beau portrait, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Dioclétien à droite (O*).
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
Poids lourd. Nous sommes en présence d’un hybride comme le signale C. H. V. Sutherland op. cit., p. 178 associant un droit avec la tête laurée seulement et un revers avec la massue à l’exergue normalement associé à un buste (B*).
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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