brm_740700 - AURELIAN Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: printemps 274
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,87 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré des deux côtés. Joli buste d’Aurélien, finement détaillé. Des faiblesses. Patine gris foncé
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 : ORI-ENS AV-G//.
Reverse description : Sol (Le Soleil) radié, nu, le manteau sur l’épaule gauche, debout à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la gauche ; à ses pieds, de chaque côté, un captif assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Oriens Augusti”, (L’Orient de L’Auguste).
Commentary
Un seul exemplaire de ce type dans la trouvaille 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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