v32_0415 - GALLIENUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 7
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 11,71 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur une flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait du début du règne de Gallien. Revers de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage. Très belle patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : AUT K P LIK GALLIANOS EU EU B, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Publios Likinios Gallihnos Eusebios).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur Publius Licinius Gallien pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LZ.
Reverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus (Jupiter) à droite.
Reverse translation : (An 7).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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.
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sell
Full data
cgbfr.com numismatists
