Live auction - brm_678680 - AURELIAN Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 280 € |
| Price : | 120 € |
| Maximum bid : | 120 € |
| End of the sale : | 14 May 2024 14:14:50 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 274
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau buste d’Aurélien. Revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Patine gris métallique foncé avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Guercheville
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite vu de trois quarts en avannt avec l’égide sur l’épaule (B02).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ORIENS AVG// Q.
Reverse description : Sol radié et nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche ; le pied droit posé sur un captif assis à gauche, un autre captif à droite.
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse lisse. Ptéryges larges. Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous proposons un exemplaire à la vente.
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 and then attacked Zenobia and Vaballath by seizing Palmyra in 272. Then he undertook the reconquest of the Gallic Empire and defeated Tetricus at Châlons. 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. With the reform, Aurélien tried to recreate a truly coherent monetary system that had completely disappeared since the end of Gallien's reign. A return to monetary orthodoxy, the victories over Palmyra and the Gallic Empire allowed this monetary restoration which was to survive somehow until the reform of Diocletian in 294. Apparently the denarius, sometimes silver, was worth half the new coin called aurelianus or antoninianus.
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