brm_941523 - AURELIAN Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: fin 271
Mint name / Town : Cyzicus
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,96 g.
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Faiblesse de frappe au revers. Jolie patine verte
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 : GENIVS EX-ERCITI.
Reverse description : Genius (Le Génie) nu, coiffé du modius, debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche ; derrière lui, à gauche, une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Genius Exerciti”, (Le Génie de l’armée).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Trace de frappe incuse au revers.
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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