E-auction 223-147609 - brm_173571 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 140 € |
| Price : | 77 € |
| Maximum bid : | 82 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 July 2017 14:15:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début - été
Date: 287
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,57 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe avec une expression réaliste. Frappe molle et faible au revers. Recouvert d’une jolie patine grise avec des reflets mordorés. A conservé au droit la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de ROME I, n° 30
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Valerius Maximianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Valère Maximien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HERCVLI PACIFERO/ -|-// SML.
Reverse description : Hercule nu, debout à gauche, tenant un rameau d’olivier de la main droite et sa massue reposant sur son bras gauche et tenant la léonté.
Reverse translation : “Herculi Pacifero”, (À Hercule pacificateur).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Orientation des coins inhabituelle. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection Voetter du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne, Bastien, n° 139b, pl. IX. C’est le cinquième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le n° 139c 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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