brm_279130 - GALLIENUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 265-266
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire tout à fait exceptionnel pour ce type rare et souvent fruste. Portrait de toute beauté, sans usure, avec l’intégralité des mèches et de la barbe visible. Revers à l’usure régulière. Patine gris foncé
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection du baron Louis Chaurand, dispersée à Drouot le 10 avril 2012, lot n°233
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Gallien à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gallienus Augustus”, (L'empereur Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ABVNDANTIA AVG.
Reverse description : Abundantia (l’Abondance) drapée, debout à droite, déversant le contenu d'une corne d'abondance.
Reverse translation : “Abundantia Augusti”, (L'Abondance de l'auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 1. Monnaie divisionnaire rare.
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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