v08_0465 - AURELIAN and VABALLATHUS Tétradrachme, (MB, Æ 21)
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
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Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
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Type : Tétradrachme, (MB, Æ 21)
Date: an 1/ an 4
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,59 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beaux portraits. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d'Aurélien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : AUT K L D AURELIANOS SEB/ L-A
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Lucius Domitius Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste lauré et diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Vabalathe à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A').
Reverse legend : I A S OUABALLAqOS AqENOU AUT SRw/ L-D
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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