v34_0716 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 253-254
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,32 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement ovale et irrégulier, de frappe faible sur les légendes. Très beau portrait. Beau revers inhabituel. Recouvert d’une épaisse patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : RESTITVT GE[NER HV]MANI.
Reverse description : Sol radié et drapé marchant à droite, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : Restitutori Generi Humani”, (Au restaurateur du Genre Humain).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Rubans à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Revers tout à fait inhabituel.
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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