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Triton XXV 11-12 Jan 2022
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Diocletian. AD 284-305. Gilded Æ Medallion (27mm, 14.20 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck AD 287. IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, radiate and mantled bust left, holding eagle-tipped scepter in right hand / VICTORIA AVGG, two Victories attaching shield to palm tree between them. Unpublished in the standard references, presumed unique. Much of the original gilding preserved. Good VF.
Ex Roma E-Sale 57 (30 May 2019), lot 1040; Tkalec (8 September 2008), lot 380.
Struck in AD 287, this medallion commemorates the co-consulship between Diocletian and Maximian. Diocletian had actually elevated Maximian from the rank of Caesar to Augustus a year earlier after successful campaigns along the Rhine, defeating the Heruli and Chaibones and effectively clearing the Rhineland of Germanic tribesman. The timing of Maximian's elevation may have also been to assist with the increasing military threats from the new rebel Carausius, self-proclaimed ruler in Gaul and Britannia.
Ex Roma E-Sale 57 (30 May 2019), lot 1040; Tkalec (8 September 2008), lot 380.
Struck in AD 287, this medallion commemorates the co-consulship between Diocletian and Maximian. Diocletian had actually elevated Maximian from the rank of Caesar to Augustus a year earlier after successful campaigns along the Rhine, defeating the Heruli and Chaibones and effectively clearing the Rhineland of Germanic tribesman. The timing of Maximian's elevation may have also been to assist with the increasing military threats from the new rebel Carausius, self-proclaimed ruler in Gaul and Britannia.