v16_0658 - AURELIAN Antoninien
MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 275.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 330.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 275.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 330.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: fin 271 - automne 272
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé (Byzance)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 20 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,69 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale. Fêlure de frappe au revers à six heures. Jolie patine marron. Beau revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste d’Aurélien, tête radiée, à droite, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Aurelianus Augustus” (Empereur Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSERVA-TORI// (DAUPHIN).
Reverse description : Aurélien lauré, en habit militaire, debout à droite, tenant un sceptre court de la main gauche et tendant la droite vers Jupiter nu, le manteau sur l’épaule gauche, debout à gauche, présentant un globe de la main droite et tenant une haste de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori” (À Jupiter le protecteur).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Un seul exemplaire de ce type dans le catalogue de La Venèra.
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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