bpv_809288 - GALLIENUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 253-268
Mint name / Town : Augusta Traiana, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,75 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure régulière. Revers agréable. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Gallien à droite.
Obverse legend : AUT K GALLIHNOS, (Autokrator, Kaisar Gallihnos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Gallien).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, les ailes déployées, une couronne dans le bec.
Reverse legend : AUGOUSTHS TRAIANHS
Reverse translation : (d’Augusta Traiana).
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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