brm_967076 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: fin
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,08 g.
Officine: 12e
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Joli revers. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CLAVDIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Claude II à droite (O).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Claudius Augustus”, (L’empereur Claude auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LAETITIA AVG/ -|-// XII.
Reverse description : Laetitia (la Joie) drapée, debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une ancre posée sur un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Lætitia Augusti”, (La Joie de l’auguste).
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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