brm_349624 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: printemps - fin
Date: 254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,38 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait magnifique. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés, légèrement granuleuse au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IM C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTV-S AVGG.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) debout à gauche, la main droite tenant une lance et la main gauche un bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (la Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. 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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