v38_0902 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 264
Mint name / Town : Italie, Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,56 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait inhabituel. Joli revers avec un petit plat de frappe au centre. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Gallien à droite, avec pan de paludamentum sur l'épaule gauche (O2).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LAETIT-IA AVG/ -|-// P.
Reverse description : Lætitia (la Joie) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un gouvernail de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Lætitia Augusti”, (La Joie de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 1. Portrait inhabituel.
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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