v36_0649 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 259-260
Mint name / Town : Italie, Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,41 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan régulier, bien centré. Usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable et lisible. Beau portrait inhabituel. Recouvert d’une épaisse patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Gallien à gauche (O1).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Gallienus Augustus", (L’empereur Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTO-RIA - AVGG.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée, debout de face entre deux boucliers, les ailles ouvertes, tenant une couronne ouverte des deux mains.
Reverse translation : "Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 1. Buste héroïque. Trace de frappe incuse au revers. Ce type est en fait plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Historical background
GALLIENUS
(07/253-08 or 09/268)
Augustus with Valerian I
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 Postumus, who first eliminated Salonin, 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 revolted.
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