v08_0443 - VICTORINUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 335.39 €
Estimate : 487.84 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 335.39 €
Estimate : 487.84 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 20 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,99 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Avec une partie de son argenture / Revers de haut relief pour ce type. Petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M PIAVVONIVS VICTORINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Victorin à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Piavvonien Victorin pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES - MIL-ITVM.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) debout à gauche, drapée, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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