Live auction - brm_554154 - AURELIAN Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 29 October 2019 14:58:17 |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: novembre 274 - septembre 275
Date: 274-275
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,87 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste d’Aurélien. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite avec l’égide, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Aurelianus Augustus”, (Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : RESTITVT OR-BIS/ *// KAA.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) (?) drapée, debout à droite, tendant une couronne de la main droite à Aurélien lauré, en habit militaire, debout à gauche, tendant la main droite et tenant une haste de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Restitutor Orbis”, (Le Restaurateur du Monde).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges larges. Le pan de paludamentum est orné d’une grande égide.
Historical background
AURELIAN
(07/270-09/275)
Aurélien reformed the coinage of billon by creating a new coin, the aurelianus or antoninian with the mark XXI in the West or KA in the East. For 30 years and the thesis of J.-P. Callu, much has been said about the meaning of these marks which characterize the coins after the reform of 274. One of the hypotheses would have it that 20 aureliani containing 5% silver identical to a pure silver coin. These aureliani appear to be cut to 1/84th of a pound (3.87 g). Another theory long defended by the author consisted in explaining the exergue as a mark of value XX or K = I or A. The new denomination then corresponding to 20 sesterces (HS) which was the unit of account or 5 deniers. Today, the value of this new coin, aurelianus, would be 4 denarii. The return to monetary orthodoxy, thanks to the victories over Palmyra and the Gallic Empire, allowed a monetary restoration which was to survive, somehow, until the reform of Diocletian in 294, perhaps creating a significant rise in prices..
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