v21_3181 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 261-262
Mint name / Town : Italie, Milan (Mediolanum)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait sur un flan large et ovale. Joli revers. Une patine grise superficielle recouvre l’ensemble de la pièce
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Gallien à droite drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O2).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - AVGVSTI/ S|-.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) courant à gauche, brandissant une branche d’olivier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce type de buste reste exceptionnel (O2) pour l’atelier de Milan.
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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