brm_942968 - DIOCLETIAN Pseudo ou néo-aurelianus
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Price : 30.00 €
Type : Pseudo ou néo-aurelianus
Date: 295-296
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,90 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale avec un très beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
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 Valerius Dioclétien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA MIL-ITVM/ HA// -.
Reverse description : L’empereur et Jupiter debout face à face ; Dioclétien est à gauche, tenant un sceptre court de la main gauche et recevant un globe nicéphore de Jupiter, nu debout à droite, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Militum”, (La Concorde des soldats).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. La première officine, bien que classée comme “commune” au RIC, semble beaucoup plus rare.
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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