E-auction 88-44934 - brm_242429 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 75 € |
| Price : | 30 € |
| Maximum bid : | 30 € |
| End of the sale : | 22 December 2014 15:27:00 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 291-292
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de haut relief. Joli revers de style fin. Très belle patine gris métallique foncé avec des reflets dorés. Légèrement taché au revers. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Maximianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Maximien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA MI-LITVM/ S// XXI.
Reverse description : Maximien Hercule et Jupiter debout face à face ; Maximien debout à gauche, tourné à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant de la main gauche un parazonium, et recevant un globe nicéphore de Jupiter nu, debout à droite, tourné à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche et appuyé sur un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Militum”, (La Concorde des soldats).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rare émission de l’atelier d’Héraclée avant la Réforme monétaire de 294. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Sans césure dans lé lagende de revers.
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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