v13_0830 - AURELIAN Aurelianus
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 381.12 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 381.12 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 274
Mint name / Town : Mysie, Cyzique
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,53 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Emission: 8e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Avec son argenture. Faiblesse de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d'Aurélien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Aurelianus Augustus", (L'empereur Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MARS IN-VICTVS/ A// XXI.
Reverse description : Mars et Sol debout face à face. Mars debout à gauche tourné à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant une haste de la main gauche. Sol debout à droite, tourné à gauche, nu, radié, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un fouet de la main gauche et tendant un globe de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Mars Invictus”, (Mars invincible).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society.
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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