brm_665257 - AURELIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: novembre 274 - septembre 275
Date: 274-275
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli revers ainsi qu’un buste agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite avec l’égide, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator 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).
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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