brm_942095 - AURELIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: automne 274 - printemps 275
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,52 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Magnifique buste, finement détaillé. Très joli revers. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste d’Aurélien, tête radiée, à droite, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Caesar Aurelianus Augustus”, (Empereur César Aurélien Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ORIE-NS AVG// XXIS.
Reverse description : Sol (Le Soleil) radié, nu, le manteau sur l’épaule gauche, debout à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet de la gauche ; à ses pieds, de chaque côté, un captif assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Oriens Augusti”, (L’Orient de L’Auguste).
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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