v36_0692 - AURELIAN Antoninien
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: été
Date: 271
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Beau portrait. Revers énigmatique. Jolie patine vert noir et sable
Catalogue references :
C.71 (20f.) - RIC.258 - LV.- - Göbl240 e0 (4 ex.) - La Venèra. II.1/- - RCV.- - MRK.- - BN/RXII.1- - ROME 10./997
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C D AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Domitius Aurelianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Domitius Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSER-VATOR AVG/ -|-// SERD.
Reverse description : Esculape debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant de la main droite un bâton autour duquel est enlacé un serpent et tenant sa toge de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Conservator Augusti/ Serdica”, (Le Protecteur de Llauguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3. Type absent du catalogue de La Venèra. R. Göbl a répertorié seulement quatre exemplaires de ce type.
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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