E-auction 249-171954 - brm_468625 - AURELIAN and VABALLATHUS Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 80 € |
| Price : | 32 € |
| Maximum bid : | 50 € |
| End of the sale : | 22 January 2018 14:35:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 271
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Patine marron. Monnaie tachée. Faiblesse de frappe sur chacun des bustes. L’épigraphie est particulièrement belle et vigoureuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : VABALATHVS V C R IM D R.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et diadémé (bandeau) de Vabalathe à droite, avec paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Vabalathus Vir Clarissimus Rex Imperator Dux Romanorum", (Vabalathe Clarissime Roi Général Duc des Romains).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG// E.
Reverse description : Buste d'Aurélien radié à droite, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Reverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Aurelianus Augustus" (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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