brm_243365 - AURELIAN Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: début - septembre
Date: 275
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,00 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 6,29 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Usure importante, mais exemplaire parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine vert noir granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXVIII, n° 327 et de MONNAIES 45, n° 548
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP AVRELI-ANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Aurelianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCOR-DI-A AVG/ -|-// .
Reverse description : Séverine, drapée, debout à droite, donnant la main droite à Aurélien, lauré, en habit militaire, debout à gauche, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche ; entre eux, dans le champ, la tête de Sol (le Soleil) radiée et drapée, tournée à droite.
Reverse legend : G
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augusti”, (La Concorde de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges larges. Minuscule tête de Sol au revers.
Historical background
AURELIAN
(07/270-09/275)
Aurélien reformed the coinage of billon by creating a new coin, the aurelianus or antoninian with the mark XXI in the West or KA in the East. For 30 years and the thesis of J.-P. Callu, much has been said about the meaning of these marks which characterize the coins after the reform of 274. One of the hypotheses would have it that 20 aureliani containing 5% silver identical to a pure silver coin. These aureliani appear to be cut to 1/84th of a pound (3.87 g). Another theory long defended by the author consisted in explaining the exergue as a mark of value XX or K = I or A. The new denomination then corresponding to 20 sesterces (HS) which was the unit of account or 5 deniers. Today, the value of this new coin, aurelianus, would be 4 denarii. The return to monetary orthodoxy, thanks to the victories over Palmyra and the Gallic Empire, allowed a monetary restoration which was to survive, somehow, until the reform of Diocletian in 294, perhaps creating a significant rise in prices..
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