brm_603841 - VICTORINUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: c. mi-fin
Date: 270
Mint name / Town : Germanie Inférieure, Cologne ou atelier 2
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 20,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,26 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, centré. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Victorin à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Victorinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Victorin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVG.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) diadémée, debout à gauche, drapée, sacrifiant de la main droite au-dessus d’un autel allumé et tenant une boîte à encens (acerra) de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augusti”, (La Piété de l'auguste).
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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