v08_0404 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 99.09 €
Estimate : 144.83 €
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Starting price : 99.09 €
Estimate : 144.83 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 254-256
Mint name / Town : Mésie supérieure, Viminacium
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 200 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 4-5e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait pour cet atelier / Revers stylisé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur Gallien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - A V GG.
Reverse description : Pax (La Paix) debout à gauche, brandissant une branche d'olivier de la main droite et tenant un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : (La Paix des augustes).
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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