brm_315729 - GALLIENUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 340.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 340.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 265-266
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,87 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré des deux cotés. Superbe portrait. Beau revers. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
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 : AETER-NITAS AVG.
Reverse description : Sol nu, debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Aeternitas Augusti”, (L’Eternité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. 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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