E-auction 605-577316 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: printemps - fin
Date: 254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,15 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Usure importante au revers. Joli buste. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Guercheville
Obverse
Obverse legend : IM C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS A-VGG.
Reverse description : Gallien avançant à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant une enseigne de la main gauche sur l’épaule et une haste transversale de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (la Virilité des augustes).
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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