v34_0722 - GALLIENUS Antoninien de poids lourd
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien de poids lourd
Date: c. 265
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,36 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 1re
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement large et épais, bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait. Revers spectaculaire. Patine noire lissée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Gallien à droite (O).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PA-X A-VG/ I|S.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) drapée debout de face regardant à gauche tenant une branche d'olivier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids extrêmement lourd. Rubans de type 3. La marque I|S au lieu de S|I semble complètement inédite et non répertoriée. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés. De la plus grande rareté.
Historical background
GALLIENUS
(07/253-08 or 09/268)
Augustus
Gallien, the son of Valérien I, was born in 218. He was immediately associated by his father with power and was in charge of the West, while his father went to the East. He won a brilliant victory over the Germans and consolidated the Rheno-Danubian limes. After the capture of Valérien in the East, Gallien must face on all fronts. The empire breaks up. Gaul, Spain, Germania and Brittany secede with Postum who first eliminated Salonin, the son of Gallien. It is the usurpation of Macrianus and Quietus in the East. Gallien will spend the last eight years of his life trying to put the pieces of this empire back together. Finally, he was assassinated in September 268 under the walls of Milan while besieging Aureolus, the master of the Cavalry, who had revolted.
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