v38_1120 - DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 90.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 90.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 20 novembre - 31 décembre
Date: 293
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,01 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 11e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et régulier. Beau portrait. Revers de joli style et de haut relief. Magnifique patine gris métallique, granuleuse
Catalogue references :
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 : IOVI - AVGG./ -|-// I.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu jusqu'à la ceinture assis à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Augustorum”, (Au Jupiter des augustes).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente.
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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