bpv_708974 - GALLIENUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 253-268
Mint name / Town : Iconium, Lycaonie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 5,70 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire, idéalement centré des deux côtés. Superbe buste de Gallien. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC GALLIENVG P F.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien.
Obverse translation : (Imperator Caesae Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ICONI EN COLO.
Reverse description : Heraklès debout de face, tournant la tête à gauche, tenant une massue et la léontée.
Reverse translation : (de Claudiconium).
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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