v08_0445 - VICTORINUS Antoninien avec le portrait de Marius
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
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Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien avec le portrait de Marius
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Germanie inférieure, Cologne, atelier II
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Flan irrégulier. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PI VICTORINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Victorin à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Piavvonien Victorin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AEQVITAS AVG.
Reverse description : Aequitas (l'Équité) debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : (L'Équité de l'auguste).
Historical background
VICTORINUS
(10-11/269-09/271)
Victorin spent his entire career under the reign of Postumus, of whom he was one of the main civil collaborators. He succeeds Marius, who died just after Postumus. Victorin definitively loses Spain at the beginning of the reign and has to face seditions in Brittany and Gaul. The siege of Autun, a university town in Gaul, lasted seven months. Shortly after, Victorin was assassinated in Cologne by one of his officers, a jealous husband, when he had just restored order in Gaul with the capture of Autun. His mother, Victorine, continues to play an important role in choosing the successor of her son, Tétricus..
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