bpv_311075 - AURELIAN Tétradrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 2
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,78 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, mou sur la légende. Beau portrait d’Aurélien. Revers inhabituel de haut relief. Belle patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé d'Aurélien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse legend : A K L DOM AURHLIANOS SEB, (Autokratoros Kaisar Lusios Domitianos Aurhlianos Sebastos).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Lucius Domitius Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Alexandrie drapée debout à gauche, tenant une tête de Sérapis de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : L - G.
Reverse translation : (An 3).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 Type rare pour le début du règne, moment où l’atelier était entre les mais de Vaballath et de Zénobie.
Historical background
AURELIAN
(07/270-09/275)
Aurelian was born around 207 in Sirmium. After a brilliant military career, he was proclaimed august at Sirmium after the death of Claudius II and remained sole emperor after the suicide of Quintille. He made the painful decision to abandon Dacia in 271, then attacked Zenobia and Vaballath by seizing Palmyra in 272. Then, he undertook the reconquest of the Gallic Empire and defeated Tetricus at Châlons-sur-Marne. He triumphs in Rome and saves the life of his famous prisoners. He was assassinated when he was preparing a campaign against the Sassanids in order to reconquer Mesopotamia..
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