brm_961336 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 266
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,03 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan bien centré des deux côtés. Fine usure régulière, de petites faiblesses. Patine grise, cuivrée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Gallien à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gallienus Augustus”, (L’empereur Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVG// S.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) debout à gauche, drapée, levant les deux mains ; à ses pieds, à gauche, un autel.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augusti”, (La Piété de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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