Live auction - brm_704675 - VICTORINUS Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 330 € |
| Maximum bid : | 330 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 December 2021 15:16:56 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 269-270
Mint name / Town : Cologne
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,00 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, légèrement irrégulier, centré des deux côtés. Très joli buste de Victorin. Patine marron-gris
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP VICTORINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Victorin à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un bouclier de la main gauche, orné de la Méduse (F).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Victorinus Pius Felix Augustus" (L'empereur Victorin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVG.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) diadémée et drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une boîte à encens (acerra) de la main gauche et sacrifiant au-dessus d'un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : "Pietas Augusti" (La Piété de l'auguste).
Commentary
C’est l’une des monnaies les plus rares du règne de Victorin ! Absente de la plupart des grandes collections, publiques ou privées.
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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