brm_828069 - AURELIAN Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: fin 273
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,57 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire, idéalement centré. Buste finement détaillé. Avec son argenture
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d'Aurélien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Aurelianus Augustus", (Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ORI-E-NS - AVG// Q.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) debout de face, tourné à gauche, radié, nu, le manteau sur l’épaule, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche ; devant à ses pieds, un captif, les mains liées dans le dos assis à gauche.
Reverse translation : "Oriens Augusti", (L’Orient de l'auguste).
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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