v13_0951 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 289.65 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 289.65 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290/291
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Avec son argenture. Flan large. L'un des types de buste les plus rares pour l'atelier de Lyon. Portrait de toute beauté. Flan légèrement taché avec une teinte rougeâtre superficielle
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire vient de MONNAIES VIII, 16 juin 2000, n° 507
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire radié de Dioclétien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (H).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : I-OVI - AVGG// A.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle debout à gauche, tournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Jovi 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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