v24_0590 - GALLIENUS Sesterce
MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 189.00 €
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 189.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: an 16
Mint name / Town : Viminacium, Mésie Supérieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement visible. Joli revers stylisé. Magnifique patine vert d’eau
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Gallienus Pius Augustus", (L'empereur Gallien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M S C-OL VIII// AN XVI.
Reverse description : La Mésie debout de face tournée à gauche, les deux mains étendues au-dessus d'un bœuf à gauche tourné à droite et d'un lion à droite tourné à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Provinciæ Moesiæ Superioris Colonia Viminacium, anno sextum decimum”, (Province de Mésie Supérieure colonie de Viminacium, de l’an seizième).
Commentary
C’est la dernière année de frappe pour Viminacium.
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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