v19_0315 - AUREOLUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 19 (2004)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Italie, Milan
Metal : copper
Millesimal fineness : + 20 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,58 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire pour ce monnayage sur un flan court. Beau portrait
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Postume à droite vu de trois quart en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Postumus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Postume pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORD EQVIT// S.
Reverse description : Concordia (La Concorde) debout à gauche, drapée, tenant une patère de la main droite et un gouvernail posé sur un globe de la gauche ; à ses pieds dans le champ à gauche, une proue de navire.
Reverse translation : (La Concorde de la Cavalerie).
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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