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Live auction - brm_930616 - AUREOLUS Antoninien

AUREOLUS Antoninien MS
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Estimate : 750 €
Price : 380 €
Maximum bid : 380 €
End of the sale : 24 September 2024 15:11:35
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Antoninien
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Milan (Mediolanum)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,88 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan légèrement irrégulier et légèrement décentré. Buste de toute beauté. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Postume à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Postumus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Postume pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VIRTVS - EQVITVM// S.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à droite, portant sa main droite à sa hanche et tenant de la main gauche sa massue sur laquelle est enroulée la léonté ; le tout posé sur un rocher.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Equitum”, (La Virilité de la cavalerie).

Commentary


Pour ce type, Jean-Marc Doyen avait répertorié dix-sept exemplaires avec onze coins de droit et quatorze coins de revers avec légende de droit ponctuée (IMP C POSTVMVS° P° F° AVG) et vint-et-un exemplaires avec treize coins de droit et quatorze coins de revers sans ponctuation comme sur notre exemplaire..

Historical background


AUREOLUS

(267-268)

Coinage in Postumus' name

Auréolus, "Magister Equitum" since 260, enters Gaul with Gallien during the year 267 to reconquer the "Pars Occidentalis" of the Empire. Wounded, Gallien returned to Italy, abandoning Auréolus, defeated. Feeling betrayed, Aureolus returned to Italy, allied himself with Postumus and shut himself up in Milan, hence the coinage in the name of Postumus. Gallien runs up and besieges Auréolus, but he is assassinated at the instigation of the new master of the cavalry, Claudius II, who then leaves the besieged to be massacred, to whom he has promised his life in return for his surrender..

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