brm_949334 - VICTORINUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: fin
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,65 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, très légèrement décentré au revers. Superbe buste très bien venu au droit, et revers fin et détaillé. Patine marron aux légers reflets cuivrés
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PIAV 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 Piavvonius Victorinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Piavvonien Victorin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES - M-I-LITVM.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
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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