Live auction - brm_501082 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Aureus
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| Estimate : | 7 500 € |
| Price : | 4 020 € |
| Maximum bid : | 4 020 € |
| End of the sale : | 04 December 2018 14:33:48 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Aureus
Date: 294-295
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 5,37 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan régulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait à l’usure superficielle. Joli revers de haut relief. Conserve une partie de son brillant d’origine et de son coupant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Vinchon du 11-13 avril 1988, n° 621, de MONNAIES 38, n° 1140 et de la collection R. P
Obverse
Obverse legend : MAXIMIANVS - AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Maximien Hercule à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Maximianus Augustus” (Maximien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSVL IIII - P P PRO COS/ SMA.
Reverse description : Maximien Hercule lauré, debout à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : S*.
Reverse translation : “Consul quartum Pater Patriæ Proconsul” (Consul pour la quatrième fois, Père de la Patrie, proconsul).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Marque SMA à l’exergue avec un sigma inversé et barré pour “Sacra Moneta Antiocheia” ou Monnaie sacrée d’Antioche et l’indication de la taille à la livre soit au 1/60 de livre romaine (1 livre = 324,72 g environ, donc poids théorique de l’aureus 5,41 g). Un graffito derrière l’Empereur au revers. Georges Depeyrot distingue deux types de sceptre pour le revers, vertical ou horizontal avec un total de 41 exemplaires recensés dont seulement trois pour l’horizontal.
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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