v19_0317 - AURELIAN Antoninien
MONNAIES 19 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: fin 270
Mint name / Town : Mysie, Cyzique
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,97 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait inhabituel avec une jolie patine verte. Frappe faible au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C DOM AVRELIANVS AVG// °°.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé d’Aurélien à gauche vu de trois quarts en arrière (A4).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Domitius Aurelianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Domitius Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES M-ILITVM.
Reverse description : Fides (La Fidélité) drapée, debout de face regardant à gauche, tenant une enseigne militaire de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des Armées).
Commentary
Poids très léger.
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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