v21_3274 - AURELIAN Antoninien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: été 273
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,01 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire tout à fait exceptionnel. Faiblesse de frappe. Revers inhabituel. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, et cuirassé d’Aurélien, à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Aurelianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : RESTITVT. ORIENT// A.
Reverse description : Aurélien, vêtu militairement, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche, relevant une femme agenouillée à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Restitutor Orientis”, (Le Restaurateur de l’Orient).
Commentary
Sans argenture. Semble de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’ouvrage de R. Göbl, pl. 63, n° 110a0.
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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