v13_0798 - VICTORINUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 76.22 €
Estimate : 152.45 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 76.22 €
Estimate : 152.45 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,43 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait sur un flan court et irrégulier. Patine grise. Petite faiblesse de frappe. Décentré sur la légende au revers
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 Marcus Piavvonius Victorinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Piavvonien Victorin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [FID]ES - 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 militaire).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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