brm_900848 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 294
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,58 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait servi par une très jolie patine vert jade. Frappe un peu faible au revers
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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 : PAX - .A-VGG./ -|-// A.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un long sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augustorum”, (La Paix des augustes).
Commentary
Sans argenture. Semble totalement inédit avec cette variante de légende de revers pointée. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés. Nous n’avons pas noté de liaison de coin pertinente. Prendra le numéro 612c dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
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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