brm_900948 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 4,40 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré. Joli buste et beau revers. Patine marron foncé de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire acquis auprès de la maison Bourgey en juin 1961
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 arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI VICTORI/ P|-.
Reverse description : Jupiter marchant à gauche, la tête à droite, brandissant un foudre de la main droite et tenant une haste transversale sur l'épaule gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi victori”, (Jupiter victorieux).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Même coin de revers que les exemplaires Bastien 168a et b, ainsi que 169a et b.
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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