bpv_570300 - AURELIAN Tetrassaria
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Price : 175.00 €
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 270-274
Mint name / Town : Cremna
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,82 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré à l’usure régulière. Patine granuleuse
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 : COL IULI - AU - CREMNE.
Reverse description : Sérapis assis à gauche drapé, tenant des épis de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche ; Cerbère aux pieds de Sérapis.
Reverse translation : “Coloniæ Iuli Augusti Cremne”, (colonie Iulia Auguste de Cremna).
Commentary
Représentation inhabituelle au revers. C’est l’une des dernières monnaies “coloniales” en dehors du monnayage alexandrin. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF n° 1529, pl. 84.
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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