E-auction 86-43761 - brm_198962 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 175 € |
| Price : | 97 € |
| Maximum bid : | 97 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 December 2014 15:32:30 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps 290-291
Date: 290-291
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,50 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire sur un flan ovale et bien centré des deux côtés. Faiblesse de frappe sur le portrait de Maximien qui se répercute au revers sur la Paix. Magnifique patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Maximien Hercule à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, levant la main droite (H3).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Augustus”, (L'empereur Maximien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - A-VGG/ -|-// B.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un long sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augustorum”, (La Paix des augustes).
Commentary
Avec toute son argenture. Rubans de type 3. La robe consulaire est richement décorée. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne, coll. Vœtter (n° 67.392), Bastien, n° 388c, pl. XXVVIII. Pour ce type, nous aurions donc six coins de droit et sept coins de revers pour sept exemplaires. Cet exemplaire prendra le numéro 388g 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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