brm_900827 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 289 - début 290
Date: 289-290
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,92 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur flan ovale parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait fantastique de toute beauté où tous les détails du manteau consulaire sont visibles. Jolie patine gris métallique avec reflets mordorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire radié de Dioclétien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus” (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ABVNDAT AVGG/ -|-// P.
Reverse description : Abundantia (l’Abondance) drapée, debout à droite, tenant des deux mains une corne d’abondance.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Augustorum” (Au Jupiter des augustes).
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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