brm_1006409 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: début 269 - mi 269
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,56 g.
Officine: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan court, centré des deux côtés. Joli buste finement détaillé. Patine foncée
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CLAVDIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Claude II à droite, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Claudius Augustus”, (Empereur Claude Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERT AVG/ -|X// -.
Reverse description : Libertas (la Liberté) drapée, debout de face, regardant à droite, tenant un bonnet d’affranchi de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Libertas Augusti”, (La Liberté 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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