v13_0964 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 76.22 €
Estimate : 152.45 €
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Starting price : 76.22 €
Estimate : 152.45 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 284-285
Mint name / Town : Phénicie, Tripolis, Tripoli
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,90 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Patine vert sable. Flan large et complet. Usure régulière
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/ TR// XXI..
Reverse description : Jupiter et Dioclétien debout face à face. Dioclétien est debout à gauche, tourné à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche. Jupiter est nu debout à droite, tourné à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche et tendant un globe nicéphore de la main droite à l’empereur.
Reverse translation : "Jovi Conservatori Augusti" (À Jupiter protecteur de l’auguste).
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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