v32_0451 - VICTORINUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: c. fin
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Germanie Supérieure, Cologne
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,85 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais et irrégulier, légèrement éclaté au droit à 3 heures. Très beau portrait inhabituel. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PI VICTORINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Victorin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Piavvonius Victorinus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Piavvonien Victorin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AE-QVITAS AVG.
Reverse description : Æquitas (l'Équité) debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Æquitas Augusti", (L'Équité de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle. Avec le portrait de Marius.
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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