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v21_3417 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus

MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus AU
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 150.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 287/automne 289
Date: 287-289
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon (Lugdunum)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,98 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire avec une patine marron foncé. Très beau portrait. Revers de qualité exceptionnelle
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Maximien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : HERCVL-I INVICTO AVGG/ S|-.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et la léonté enroulée autour du bras gauche, s'appuyant sur sa massue.
Reverse translation : “Herculi Invicto Augustorum”, (À l’Hercule invincible des augustes).

Commentary


Sans argenture.

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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