brm_781598 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290-291
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,98 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS. P. F. AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOV-I - A-VGG/ -|-// A.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche, détournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Augustorum”, (Au Jupiter des augustes).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Légende ponctuée. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Kunsthistorisches Museen de Vienne.
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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