v45_0515 - GALLIENUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 30)
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 30)
Date: 253-255
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,60 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Gallien. Frappe molle au revers avec une usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Belle patine vert noir légèrement tachée au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Gallien à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA EXERCIT/ S|C.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) debout de face regardant à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une double corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Exerciti”, (La Concorde de l’armée).
Commentary
Rubans de type 1. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
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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