v21_3172 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 159.00 €
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 159.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 256-258
Mint name / Town : Atelier secondaire d’Orient, (Commagène Samosate ?)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 200 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,94 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire. Avec la totalité de son argenture. Revers de style fin
Catalogue references :
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) ; globule sous le buste.
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Licinius Gallien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ORIENS - AVG.
Reverse description : L'Orient et Gallien debout face à face ; L'Orient, radié et drapé, est debout et couronne Gallien ; L'empereur est vêtu militairement et tient une haste ; au-dessus, dans le champ, une couronne pointée.
Reverse translation : "Oriens Augusti", (Le Soleil de l'auguste).
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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