E-auction 44-17815 - brm_136298 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 95 € |
| Price : | 23 € |
| Maximum bid : | 25 € |
| End of the sale : | 17 February 2014 15:35:30 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 284-285
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,62 g.
Officine: 9e
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron. Incrustations au revers.
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus" (L'empereur césar Caius Valère Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSERVATOR - I AVG/ (EPSILON)(DELTA)// XXI.
Reverse description : Dioclétien debout à droite en habit militaire, tenant un sceptre court de le main gauche, et recevant un globe nicéphore de la main de Jupiter nu debout à gauche, qui a le manteau sur l'épaule gauche et tenant un sceptre long.
Reverse translation : "Iovi Conservatori Augusti”, (À Jupiter le protecteur de l’empereur).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, au revers la neuvième officine est représentée par une combinaison de deux lettres numérales (E + D) pour remplacer le thêta dont la lettre était aussi l’initiale de la mort (thanatos).
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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