brm_646570 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 254
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,58 g.
Rarity : R2
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus” (Gallien Pieux Heureux Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE AET-ERNAE.
Reverse description : Roma (Rome), casquée et drapée assise à gauche sur un bouclier, tenant une victoriola de la main droite et une haste de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Romæ Æternæ”, (À Rome éternelle).
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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