brm_938242 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 560.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 560.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 267-268
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,26 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 11e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan court, centré des deux côtés. Joli buste, finement détaillé. Magnifique revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI CONS AVG/ -|-// XI.
Reverse description : Taureau debout à droite.
Reverse translation : “Soli Conservatori Augusti”, (Au Soleil le protecteur de l'auguste).
Commentary
Comme indiqué dans le bulletin numismatique de mai 2024 (page 48), ce type de buste (radié, drapé et cuirassé) est très rare (7 exemplaires recensés dans le Wolkow et un seul dans le Göbl - plus ancien -).
Historical background
GALLIENUS
(07/253-08 or 09/268)
Augustus
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 Postum who first eliminated Salonin, the 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 had revolted.
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