v21_3189 - GALLIENUS Diassaria
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Diassaria
Date: c. 260
Mint name / Town : Nicée, Bithynie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 4,50 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan un peu court, mais complet des deux côtés, de conservation exceptionnelle avec une magnifique patine vert olive foncé. Revers de toute beauté
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse legend : AUT GA-LLHNOS AUG, (Autokratoros Gallihnos Augustos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Trois enseignes militaires, “signa”.
Reverse legend : N-IK-AI-E//WN, (Nikaiewn)
Reverse translation : (de Nicée).
Commentary
C’est l’une des dernières émissions pour cet atelier qui ferme après le règne de Gallien.
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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