v25_0407 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
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Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,79 g.
Officine: 9e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan très large et complet des deux côtés et l’intégralité de son argenture. Frappe molle au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Claude II à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Claudius Augustus", (L'empereur césar Claude auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI S-T-ATORI.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout de face, tenant un sceptre de la main droite et un foudre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Statori”, (Jupiter qui arrête les fuyards).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Sans marque d’officine.
Historical background
CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS
(09/268-06-08/270)
Claude II is appointed Master of the Cavalry after the defection of Auréolus and is part of the plot which eliminates Gallien. Having promised Auréolus his life after the death of Gallienus, he nevertheless lets his troops massacre him after the surrender of Milan. Claudius II wins a brilliant victory over the Goths at Naissus, in Upper Moesia. Unfortunately, the vanquished spread the plague among the victors and Claude fell victim to it. He is deified after his death and an important restitution coinage is minted by Aurelian first in 270, then by Constantine I, who claimed to be descended from Claudius II, at the beginning of the 4th century..
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