E-auction 143-82485 - brm_313864 - MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS Follis ou nummus
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| Estimate : | 110 € |
| Price : | 62 € |
| Maximum bid : | 80 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 January 2016 14:43:30 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 307
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux cotés. Portrait magnifique. Revers de style fin. Très belle patine verte avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection F. de La Viuda
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Maximien Hercule à droite drap& sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximianus Puis Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Maximien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POP ROM/ S|A// PTR.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie) debout à gauche nu, coiffé du modius, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant de la main gauche une corne d'abondance et de la main droite une patère.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au Génie du Peuple romain).
Historical background
MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS
(10/12/285-02/310)
Augustus II
Maximian was born in Sirmium around 250. He had "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 bears little resemblance to the portraits of argentei, which are stereotyped and not necessarily recognizable. Chosen by Diocletian to assist him, he was first Caesar, then august from April 286. It was the Dyarchy. 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 on 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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