brm_806736 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 263
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 20,50 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, centré. Joli buste de Gallien. Revers agréable. Patine gris foncé
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 (B).
Obverse translation : "Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus", (Gallien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS AVGVSTI.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à droite, tenant la massue de la main gauche, appuyé sur un rocher.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l'auguste).
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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