brm_903667 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 264-265
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,02 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, centré. Joli portrait de Gallien. Usure plus marquée au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Gallien à droite (O).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - AVG/ -|-// -.
Reverse description : Mars casqué, debout à gauche, s’appuyant sur son bouclier de la main droite et tenant une lance de la maingauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste).
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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