v27_0266 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 600.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 600.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 1/03/293 - 20/11/293
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,32 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Emission: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Flan excessivement large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait de haut relief. La Providence au revers est bien venue à la frappe. Faiblesse de frappe sur le foudre au revers. Magnifique patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Diocletianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Dioclétien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDEN-T DEOR -|-// (FOUDRE).
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un bâton placé au-dessus d’un globe de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum”, (La Providence divine).
Commentary
Avec son argenture. Poids léger. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF, Acquisition 1985/227, Bastien n° 492(alpha) pl. IV du Supplément I. C’est le deuxième exemplaire signalé. Prendra le n° 492(alpha)b dans le Supplément III.
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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