E-auction 169-104518 - brm_174138 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 175 € |
| Price : | 135 € |
| Maximum bid : | 135 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 July 2016 14:27:30 |
| bidders : | 9 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290-291
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,40 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait bien venu à la frappe et de haut relief. Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers sur la tête de la Santé. Magnifique patine marron foncé lissée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Maximien Hercule à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Maximien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS - AVGG/ -|-// C.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à droite, tenant une patère de la main droite et nourrissant un serpent de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augustorum”, (La Santé des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. La trabea (robe consulaire) est richement ornementée formée de la toga picta et de la toga palmata. Intéressant cas de regravure de la légende au droit où sous les lettres MAXIM de MAXIMIANVS, nous distinguons clairement les lettres DIOCLET ce qui n’avait pas été signalé dans l’ouvrage de Pierre Bastien en 1972. Cet exemplaire est donc unique et vient compléter notre vision sur les regravures et modifications de titulatures de droit sous la Dyarchie, en particulier pour les cinquième et septième émissions. Prendra le numéro 416i techn. 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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