v09_0457 - AURELIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
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Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 275
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 4,12 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait stylisé. Avec son argenture / Très joli revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d'Aurélien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Aurelianus Augustus", (L'empereur césar Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : RESTITVT OR-BIS/ T// XXI.
Reverse description : Femme debout à gauche, présentant une couronne à Aurélien debout à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant un sceptre long.
Reverse translation : "Restitutori Orbis", (Au restaurateur du monde).
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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