brm_964026 - GALLIENUS Sesterce
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Price : 300.00 €
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Price : 300.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 258-261
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,11 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement irrégulier, centré. Joli buste de Gallien. Usure régulière. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP 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 Gallienus Augustus", (L’empereur Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSERVATORI/ S|C.
Reverse description : Jupiter debout à gauche tenant un foudre et un sceptre long.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori”, (Jupiter Protecteur).
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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