Live auction - brm_462389 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 280 € |
| Price : | 180 € |
| Maximum bid : | 180 € |
| End of the sale : | 30 January 2018 14:53:32 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,95 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Gallien bien venu à la frappe. Magnifique revers finement détaillé. Jolie patine grise avec reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gallienus Augustus” (L'empereur Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI V-ICTORI.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche sur un cippe, tenant une victoriola de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche ; sur le cippe est inscrit en deux lignes : IMP/ C E S.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Victori/ Imperator Cum Exercito Suo” (À Jupiter victorieux/ L'Empereur avec son armée).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Rubans de type 1.
Historical background
GALLIENUS
(07/253-08 or 09/268)
Augustus with Valerian I
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 Postumus, who first eliminated Salonin, 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 revolted.
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