Live auction - brm_503237 - DIOCLETIAN Aureus
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| Estimate : | 8 500 € |
| Price : | 6 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 6 250 € |
| End of the sale : | 10 September 2019 15:26:13 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Aureus
Date: 285-286
Mint name / Town : Cyzicus
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,50 g.
Rarity : R2
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Présence de coups sur la tranche. Portrait de haut relief. Petits coups sur le cou et l’oreille de Dioclétien. Revers finement détaillé bien venu à la frappe. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection R. P
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Dioclétien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix Augustus” (L’empereur césar Caius Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONS-ERVA-TORI ORBIS.
Reverse description : Jupiter nicéphore nu debout à gauche, le manteau flottant sur les épaule, tenant une victoriola de la main droite tendue et un long sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Orbis” (À Jupiter protecteur du monde).
Commentary
Sous coque NGC AU (Strike : 5/5 et Surface 2/5). G. Depeyrot a recensé 28 exemplaires de ce type d’aureus dont onze sont dans des musées.
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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