Live auction - brm_877279 - GALLIENUS Aureus
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| Estimate : | 4 500 € |
| Price : | 4 300 € |
| Maximum bid : | 4 400 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 March 2024 15:04:34 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Aureus
Date: 253-257
Mint name / Town : Viminacium
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,86 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau buste de Gallien, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers. Flan légèrement voilé. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente Gorny & Mosch, Auction 284, lot n° 911
Avec son certificat d'exportation de bien culturel n° 240741 délivré par le Ministère français de la Culture
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Gallienus Pius Augustus", (L’empereur Gallien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - AVGG.
Reverse description : L’empereur debout à gauche, tenant une globe et une lance ; le pied posé sur un casque.
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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