v29_0363 - AURELIAN and VABALLATHUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 150.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 204.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 150.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 204.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 271-272
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,56 g.
Officine: 3e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan. Très beaux portraits. Patine noire granuleuse avec des reflets métalliques
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*210).
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 : G
Reverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Aurelianus Augustus", (L'empereur césar Aurélien auguste).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Sans argenture. Sur ce type, Vaballath porte une couronne (laurée) et le diadème du basileos grec (bandelette de laine des rois hellénistiques).
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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