v21_3171 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
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Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257
Mint name / Town : Atelier secondaire d’Orient, (Commagène Samosate ?)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique portrait. Très joli revers. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets grisâtres
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES V, 12 décembre 1998, n° 369
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVGG.
Reverse description : Valérien Ier et Gallien debout face à face ; Gallien est debout à gauche, tenant un scipio de la main droite et une couronne de la gauche ; Valérien Ier est debout à droite, levant la main droite et tenant le parazonium de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustorum”, (La Piété des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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