v13_0176 - VITELLIUS Denier
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 304.90 €
Realised price : 152.45 €
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 304.90 €
Realised price : 152.45 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 05-12/69
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 800 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,19 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Emission: 1e
Coments on the condition:
Usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable, comparable à celui du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF.
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : A VITELLIVS - GERMANICVS IMP.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Vitellius à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Imperator”, (Aulus Vitellius vainqueur des Germains empereur).
Reverse
Reverse legend : XV VIR - SACR FAC.
Reverse description : Trépied delphien surmonté d’un dauphin tourné à droite ; aux pieds du trépied, un corbeau tourné à droite.
Reverse translation : “Quindecimvir Sacris Faciundis”, (Collège des quinze prêtres chargés des livres sacrés, sybillins).
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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