brm_222454 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 266-267
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,36 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait. Usure régulière au revers. Patine grise, légèrement brouillée
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection de Keith Emmet (spécialiste d’Alexandrie)
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite drapé sur l’épaule gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, ( Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LVNA L-VCIF/ -|-// PXV.
Reverse description : Diane, coiffée d’un croissant de lune, drapée, marchant à droite, tenant une longue torche transversale des deux mains .
Reverse translation : “Luna Lucifera”, (La Lune qui apporte la lumière).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées.
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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