v09_0432 - VICTORINUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 42.69 €
Estimate : 68.60 €
Realised price : 42.69 €
Starting price : 42.69 €
Estimate : 68.60 €
Realised price : 42.69 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 270-271
Mint name / Town : Germanie inférieure, Cologne, atelier II
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,16 g.
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Patine chocolat. Flan légèrement ovale et irrégulier / Légèrement tréflé au revers
Catalogue references :
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 : PROVIDENTIA AVG.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant un bâton placé au-dessus d'un globe de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Providentia Augusti", (La Providence de l'auguste).
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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