v21_3286 - AURELIAN Antoninien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: été 271
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Serdique (Serdica, Sofia)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,75 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Représentation du revers inhabituelle. Jolie patine verte avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C D AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Domitius Aurelianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Domitius Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSERVATOR AVG// SERD.
Reverse description : Esculape debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant de la main droite un bâton autour duquel est enlacé un serpent et tenant sa toge de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Conservator Augusti/ Serdica”, (Le Protecteur de L’auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Sans argenture. Type absent du catalogue de La Venèra. R. Göbl a répertorié seulement quatre exemplaires de ce type.
Historical background
AURELIAN
(07/270-09/275)
Aurelian was born around 207 in Sirmium. After a brilliant military career, he was proclaimed august at Sirmium after the death of Claudius II and remained sole emperor after the suicide of Quintille. He made the painful decision to abandon Dacia in 271, then attacked Zenobia and Vaballath by seizing Palmyra in 272. Then, he undertook the reconquest of the Gallic Empire and defeated Tetricus at Châlons-sur-Marne. He triumphs in Rome and saves the life of his famous prisoners. He was assassinated when he was preparing a campaign against the Sassanids in order to reconquer Mesopotamia..
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