brm_787876 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: mars - avril
Date: 285-286
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1ree
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, centré. Très beau revers, finement détaillé. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C VAL DIOCLETIANVS 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 Valerius Diocletianus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Valerius Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HERCVLI CONSERVAT/ -|-// PXXIT.
Reverse description : Hercule debout à droite, reposant sur une massue appuyée sur un rocher, et tenant la peau de lion.
Reverse translation : "Herculi Conservatori", (À Hercule le protecteur).
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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