v24_0622 - AURELIAN Tetrassaria
MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 270-274
Mint name / Town : Pisidie, Cremna
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,93 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet des deux côtés. Sans patine. Portrait taillé à la serpe. Revers intéressant
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CS L DOM AVRELIANO.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite, vu de de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Cæsari Lucio Domitio Aureliano”, (À l’empereur césar Lucius Domitius Aurélien).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DONATIO C-OL CREMNE.
Reverse description : Personnage agonistique debout de face, vêtue d’un chiton long, les mains posées sur deux vas cylindriques (situles) contenant chacun une palme.
Reverse translation : “Donatio Coloniæ Cremne”, (Don de la colonie de Cremna).
Commentary
Représentation inhabituelle au revers. C’est l’une des dernières monnaies “coloniales” en dehors du monnayage alexandrin.
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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