brm_315562 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 263-266
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,51 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante mais parfaitement identifiable. Concrétion verte au revers. patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : G-ALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière, tenant une lance, pointée en avant de la main droite et un bouclier de la main gauche (F8).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTOR-IA AVG.
Reverse description : Victoire drapée, avançant à droite, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un trophée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (La Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
C’est l’un des revers les plus rares du règne de Gallien ! C’est le troisième exemplaire connu.
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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