brm_990634 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Price : 850.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 850.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 265-266
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,23 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés. Très beau buste finement détaillé. Joli revers. Patine marron-gris
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Gallien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (A11).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SECVR-IT PERPET/ -|H.
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) drapée debout à gauche, les jambes croisées, tenant un sceptre long de la pain droite, le coude gauche appuyé sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : “Securitas Perpetua”, (La Sécurité Perpétuelle).
Commentary
Exemplaire rarissime. Buste exceptionnel pour la période, quasi héroïque avec un drapé visible à mi-corps.
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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