v21_3277 - AURELIAN Antoninien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: décembre 270 - janvier 271
Mint name / Town : Italie, Milan (Mediolanum)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,89 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan un peu court avec un très beau portrait. Revers tout à fait inhabituel. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Aurelianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCO EXER.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde), drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une enseigne de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Exercitus”, (La Concorde de l’armée).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture.
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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