Live auction - brm_476632 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 850 € |
| Price : | 550 € |
| Maximum bid : | 800 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 June 2018 14:52:43 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 289 - début 290
Date: 289-290
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale bien centré et les grènetis visibles. Magnifique buste de Maximien Hercule taillé à la serpe de haut relief. Revers particulier de toute beauté. Jolie patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Philippe Lacoste
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Maximien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELIC-ITAS PVBLIC/ -|-// S.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à gauche, les jambes croisées, tenant un caducée de la main droite, le coude gauche appuyé sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Publica”, (la Félicité publique).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Nous n’avons pas de liaison de coin pertinente pour cet aurelianus. Le type de revers est rarissime, recensé seulement à quatre exemplaires : B. 272 (3 ex.) et B. 272(alpha) = coll. Compas (MONNAIES XXVII, n° 194). Prendra le numéro 272d 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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