bpv_858832 - GALLIENUS Diassaria
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Type : Diassaria
Date: c. 260-268
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie,Troade
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,46 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers. Jolie représentation de Marsyas. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP LICI-N GALLIE.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur Licinius Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COL. AVG// TROAD.
Reverse description : Marsyas nu debout à droite, levant la main droite et tenant une outre de la main gauche, reposant sur l’épaule.
Reverse translation : (Colonie Augusta de Traode).
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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