brm_670156 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: janvier - été
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan ovale, avec une jolie Providentia détaillée au revers. Présence de concrétions vertes, patine marron
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Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Guercheville
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête de Claude radiée à droite (O).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Claudius Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Claude pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVID AVG/ -|- // T.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Augusti”, (La Providence de l’auguste).
Commentary
Revers inhabituel.
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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