bpv_809269 - GALLIENUS Octassaria
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Type : Octassaria
Date: c. 255-260
Mint name / Town : Tarse, Cilicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 17,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au droit. Très joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse legend : AU KAI P HG GALLIHNOS SEB/ P|P, (Autokrator Kaisaros Publios Hgrnatios Gallihnos Sebastos Patri Patrios)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Publius Egnatius Gallien auguste, père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse description : Dionysos debout de face, la tête tournée à gauche, tenant un canthare et un thyrse ; à ses pieds, une panthère.
Reverse legend : TARSOU MHTROPOL AMK/ G|B
Reverse translation : (Ville de Tarse, trois fois décorée).
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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