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v27_0264 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus

MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus AU
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 195.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 195.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début 293 - 1/03/293
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,86 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 9e
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de style fin. Revers bien venu à la frappe de joli style. Jolie patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
B.485 pl. XXXV (12 ex.) - RIC.404  - C.427  - ROME 1/-

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, avec pan de paludamentum vu de trois quarts en avant (C01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Maximien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : PAX - A-GG/ B|-// (CROISSANT).
Reverse description : Minerve casquée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant un rameau d'olivier de la main droite et une haste de la main gauche, appuyée sur son bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augustorum”, (La Paix des augustes).

Commentary


Sans argenture. Casqué orné et festonné. Couvre nuque ornementé. Cuirasse cloutée. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF n° 13.611, Bastien n° 485a, pl. XXXV.

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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