Live auction - brm_825020 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 450 € |
| Price : | 225 € |
| Maximum bid : | 225 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 June 2023 14:58:06 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 261
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,51 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Très beau lion, bien venu à la frappe. Frappe plus faible au droit. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à gauche, vu de trois quarts avant, tenant une lance transversale de la main droite, reposant sur l’épaule et un bouclier de la main gauche .
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COHH PRAET VI P VI F.
Reverse description : Lion radié avançant à droite.
Reverse translation : “Cohortis Prætorianum sextum pia, sextum fidelis”, (Les cohortes prétoriennes pieuse et fidèle pour la sixième fois).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Buste exceptionnel. L’épisème des cohortes prétoriennes était le lion radié. Ce lion se rencontre déjà dans le monnayage de Caracalla, à partir de 215, puis nous le retrouvons sous Philippe l’Arabe et son fils à Antioche, sous Probus et à Lyon sous la Tétrarchie avec Maximien Hercule.
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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