v31_0544 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: novembre 285 - janvier 286
Date: 285-286
Mint name / Town : Itialie, Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,03 g.
Officine: 4e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de haut relief et d’un style saisissant. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Caius Valère Dioclétien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MARS V-ICTOR/ -|- VIXXIT.
Reverse description : Mars casqué et nu, le manteau flottant sur l’épaule, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un trophée de la main gauche qui repose sur l’épaule.
Reverse translation : “Mars Victor”, (Mars victorieux).
Commentary
Ptéryges fines. Rubans de type 3. Cassure de coin perceptible dans le champ du revers.
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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