brm_215902 - VITELLIUS As
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : As
Date: c. 01-06/69
Date: 69
Mint name / Town : Tarragone
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,26 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, légèrement court sur les légendes. Frappe faible sur les légendes. Usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : A VI[TELLIV]S IMP GERMAN.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Vitellius à gauche ; globe à la pointe du cou (O*1) .
Obverse translation : “Aulus Vitellius Imperator Germanicus”, (Aulus Vitellius empereur germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES / [E]XERCITVVM/ SC.
Reverse description : Deux mains jointes (Bonne Foi).
Reverse translation : “Fides Exercituum”, (La Fidélité des armées).
Commentary
Exemplaire caractéristique avec un petit globe à la pointe du cou.
Historical background
VITELLIUS
(2/01-20/12/69)
Vitellius was proclaimed on January 1 or 2, 69 by the armies of Germania. After Bédriac and the disappearance of Othon, in April 69, Vitellius moved to Rome in June. Vespasian was proclaimed by the army in Alexandria on July 1, 69 and Vitellius could not maintain himself. After a sedition broke out in Rome in December, he was assassinated on the 20th, and his body dragged into the Tiber, leaving Vespasian as sole ruler of the Roman Empire..
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