brm_607047 - AURELIAN Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: fin
Date: 271
Mint name / Town : Cyzicus
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,15 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin. Jolie patine vert olive clair
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite avec l’égide, vu de trois quarts en avant (B02).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Aurelianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SAECVLI F-ELICITAS.
Reverse description : Aurélien lauré, en habit militaire, debout de face regardant à droite, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un globe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Sæculi Felicitas”, (La Félicité du siècle).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse cloutée. Ptéryges fines. Égide visible sur l’épaule.
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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