E-auction 254-177396 - brm_353784 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 75 € |
| Maximum bid : | 75 € |
| End of the sale : | 26 February 2018 14:21:30 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 287
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,84 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan très large, ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin. Magnifique patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Valère Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSERVATOR AVGG/ A-|// .XXI.I..
Reverse description : Dioclétien et Jupiter debout face à face sacrifiant au-dessus d'un trépied allumé ; Dioclétien est debout à gauche, vêtu militairement, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche et une patère de la main droite ; Jupiter est nu debout à droite, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche et une patère de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Conservator Augustorum”, (Conservateur des augustes).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse cloutée. Épaulière cloutée et ptéryges larges. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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