v38_0838 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,80 g.
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier fendu à 9 heures au droit, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Revers de style fin, mais de frappe faible et molle. Patine superficielle avec des reflets dorés
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 arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - AVGG.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) ou Mars, casqué et vêtu militairement debout à gauche, tenant une haste renversée de la main gauche et appuyé sur son bouclier de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
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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