Live auction - brm_441735 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 01 August 2017 14:44:05 |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,42 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Maximien Hercule. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C MAXIMIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à gauche drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (C11).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Maximianus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Maximien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVTI AVGG/ -|-// -.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à droite, étranglant le lion de Némée ; à ses pieds derrière lui, sa massue.
Reverse translation : “Virtuti Augustorum”, (À la Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Casque clouté. Visière longue et décorée. Couvre nuque orné d’une croisette cantonnée de globules. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines et tombantes, visibles des deux côtés. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF, Bastien, n° 219d, pl. XV. C’est le dixième exemplaire publié.
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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