Live auction - bpv_962016 - GALLIENUS Tétradrachme
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 13
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,20 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très joli tétradrachme sur flan un peu court et centré. Agréable buste bien reconnaissable de l’empereur a droit. Beau revers bien venu. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
BMC.2192 - Milne4117 - Curtis- - MRKA.1086 - AC.3823 /13-1 (cet ex.) - RCV.- - Cop.788 - MRMA.90 /89 (100€) - D.5289
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K P LIK GALLIHNOS SEB, (Autokrator Kaisar Publios Likinios Gallihnos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (Imperator Publius Licinius Gallien Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L -.
Reverse description : Niké (Victoria) drapée debout de face, les ailes ouvertes, les bras ouverts, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : IG
Reverse translation : (An 13).
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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