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v34_0827 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus

DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus AU
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,04 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, le métal échancré à 8 heures au droit, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de style fin. Très joli revers avec le métal légèrement pincé à 1 heure. Magnifique patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VIRTV-[TI] AVGG/ -|-// -.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à droite, étranglant le lion de Némée ; à ses pieds derrière lui, sa massue ; derrière, victoriola volant à droite et le couronnant.
Reverse translation : “Virtuti Augustorum”, (À la Virilité des augustes).

Commentary


Poids léger. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire 229c et même coin de revers que le 229d.

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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