v08_0402 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
Realised price : 68.60 €
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
Realised price : 68.60 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 259-260
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 250 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,90 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan légèrement ovale et irrégulier et avec une jolie patine de médaillier
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS° P° F° AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : (Gallien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICT GERM-ANICA.
Reverse description : La Victoire debout à gauche, brandissant une couronne de la main droite et tenant un trophée de la main gauche, le pied droit posé sur un captif.
Reverse translation : (La Victoire germanique).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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