v09_0428 - VICTORINUS Antoninien de poids lourd
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 99.09 €
Estimate : 144.83 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 99.09 €
Estimate : 144.83 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien de poids lourd
Date: 270-271
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,94 g.
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait sur un flan large et complet, mais irréglier / Frappé avec un coin mou au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Victorin à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Victorinus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Victorin pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICT-ORIA AVG.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) courant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Victoria Augusti", (La Victoire 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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