v38_0870 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 265-267
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,71 g.
Officine: 5e
Emission: 9e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, ovale et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve son brillant de frappe et une partie de son coupant d’origine
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 : VBERITAS AVG/ -|E// -.
Reverse description : Uberitas (la Fertilité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une grappe de raisin de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Uberitas Augusti”, (La Fertilité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 1.
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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