Live auction - brm_466857 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 850 € |
| Price : | 420 € |
| Maximum bid : | 420 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 March 2018 15:59:32 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287 - automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,87 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait herculéen de Maximien de toute beauté. Revers de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Magnifique patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Philippe Lacoste
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F 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 Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Maximien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HERCVLI INVICTO AVGG/ S|-.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et appuyé de la main gauche sur sa massue.
Reverse translation : “Herculi Invicto Augustorum”, (À l’Hercule invaincu des augustes).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que les deux exemplaires décrits dans l’ouvrage du Dr. P. Bastien (B. 180 a et b, pl. XII). C’est le cinquième exemplaire signalé. Manque aux grands musées tels le Cabinet des médailles de la BnF ou le British Museum. Prendra le numéro 180d dans le supplément 3 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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