v24_0624 - AURELIAN and VABALLATHUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 195.00 €
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 195.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 271-272
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Antioche (Antiochia ad Orontem)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 8e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très beaux portraits. Patine vert gris avec des reflets métalliques. Exemplaire dans un état de conservation exceptionnel pour ce type
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VABALATHVS V C R IM D R.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et diadémé (bandeau), drapé de Vaballath à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Vabalathus Vir Clarissimus Rex Imperator Dux Romanorum", (Vaballath, clarissime, roi, empereur, duc des Romains).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG// .
Reverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d'Aurélien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Reverse legend : H.
Reverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Aurelianus Augustus", (L'empereur césar Aurélien auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
AURELIAN and VABALLATHUS
(270-272)
Vaballath, son of Zenobia and Odenath, succeeded his father who was assassinated in 266 or 267. After a period of uncertainty during which the Palmyraeans occupied Syria, Palestine and Egypt while seeming to recognize the authority of Rome (of where the issuance of Antoninianus at the beginning of the reign of Aurelian), relations deteriorated quickly. Vaballath was proclaimed august in 272. Aurelian, after a short campaign, retook Egypt and engaged in a definitive battle which ended with the destruction of Palmyra and the capture of Vaballath and Zenobia, who participated in his triumph in 274.
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