Live auction - bpv_456236 - AURELIAN and VABALLATHUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 31 October 2017 15:08:41 |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 1/ an 4
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais et irrégulier à l’usure régulière. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
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/ A
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Lucius Domitius Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste lauré et diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Vaballath à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A').
Reverse legend : I A S OUABALLAqOS AqENOU AUT SRw/ D
Reverse translation : (Vaballath Athenou auguste).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Au revers, nous n’avons que le delta pour la quatrième année de règne de Vaballath.
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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