E-auction 100-52735 - brm_173565 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 225 € |
| Price : | 82 € |
| Maximum bid : | 145 € |
| End of the sale : | 16 March 2015 15:24:30 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début - été
Date: 287
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,91 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable et lisible. Portrait tout à fait exceptionnel de Maximien représenté en Hercule. Patine marron foncé. Revers de style fin
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la liste BN 132, n° 54
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C MAXIMIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Maximien Hercule à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant avec la léonté sur l’épaule et tenant de la main droite la massue (G1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Maximianus Pius Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Maximien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HERCVLI PACIFERO/ B|-// SML.
Reverse description : Hercule nu, debout à gauche, tenant un rameau d’olivier de la main droite et sa massue reposant sur son bras gauche et tenant la léonté.
Reverse translation : “Herculi Pacifero”, (À Hercule pacificateur).
Commentary
Sans argenture. Semble de même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de la collection Voetter du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne (n° 67.314), Bastien n° 130b, pl. VIII. La qualité de la photo du moulage ne permet pas de trancher avec certitude. Nous n’avons aucune liaison de coin de droit. C’est le cinquième exemplaire publié. Prendra le numéro 127 e dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Historical background
MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS
(10/12/285-02/310)
Auguste I
Maximian was born in Sirmium around 250. He has "a low forehead, a wrinkled face, a trumpet nose, a thick chin and neck, a shaggy beard" according to "The Roman Emperors", op. cit., p. 119. This description does not look so much like the portraits of the argentei, which are stereotyped and not necessarily recognizable. He is chosen by Diocletian to assist him. He was first Caesar, then Augustus from April 286, and it was the foundation of the Diarchy. Maximien settles in Trèves and must fight against the barbarian invasions and the usurpation of Carausius in Brittany. In 293, when the Tetrarchy was created, he was assisted by Constantius Chlorus. Diocletian forces Maximian to abdicate on May 1, 305. He resents retirement and goes to support his son Maxentius when he seizes Rome on October 28, 306. He resumes service as august in 307 and helps Constantine to whom he gives his daughter Fausta in marriage. Maximian is forced to abdicate at the conference of Carnuntum, November 11, 308. One last time, he resumes the purple at the beginning of 310 in Marseilles before committing suicide or being assassinated.
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