v13_0697 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 60.98 €
Estimate : 121.96 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 60.98 €
Estimate : 121.96 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 258-259
Mint name / Town : Atelier 2 d'Asie, Commagène, Samosate
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 200 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,47 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Portrait inhabituel. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE AETER-NAE.
Reverse description : Rome assise à gauche sur un bouclier tenant une victoriola de la main droite et une haste de la gauche ; debout devant elle à gauche, Gallien radié debout à droite, vêtu de la toge, tendant la main droite ; dans le champ, au milieu, au-dessus, une couronne.
Reverse translation : "Romæ Æternæ", (À Rome Eternelle).
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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