brm_666105 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: automne 253 - début 254
Date: 253-254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,46 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - AVGG.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité), casquée et vêtue militairement debout à gauche, tenant une haste de la main gauche et un bouclier de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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