v31_0450 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale et régulier. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Recouvert d’une fine patine grise superficielle
Catalogue references :
C.1309 var. - RIC.58 - E.54 - Eauze1489 - Cunetio- - MIR.36/882 (48 ex.) - RCV.10413 - HCC.58 - RSC.1309 a
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 : “Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Gallien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - A-VGG.
Reverse description : Gallien debout de face tourné à droite, vêtu militairement, le manteau flottant au vent, tenant une enseigne de la main droite et une haste transversale.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (la Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Poids extrêmement lourd. Revers inhabituel qui ne sera pas repris ensuite et utilisé par Gallien seul.
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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