v31_0454 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 262
Mint name / Town : Italie, Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,53 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Exemplaire parfaitement lisible et identifiable malgré l’usure importante. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LEG VII CL VI P VI F.
Reverse description : Bœuf (bison) debout à droite.
Reverse translation : "Legio septimum Claudia sextum pia, sextum fidelis", (Septième légion Claudia pieuse et fidèle pour la sixième fois).
Commentary
Poids léger. Trace de frappe incuse au revers. Notre type de buste bien que courant ne semble pas répertorié par R. Göbl dans son corpus.
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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