v09_0394 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 263
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Antioche
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,51 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait avec une patine foncée / Faiblesse de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Gallienus Augustus", (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS AVGVSTI// *.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à droite, tenant la massue de la main gauche, appuyé sur un rocher.
Reverse translation : (La Virilité de l'Auguste).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l'exemplaire représenté dans l'ouvrage d'Alföldi (pl. 34/14).
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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