brm_386816 - VITELLIUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: après 69
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : fourré silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,26 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré à l’argent cristallisé. Joli portrait et beau revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : A VITELLIVS - IMP GERMAN.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Vitellius à droite (O*) ; globe à la pointe du coup.
Obverse translation : “Aulus Vitellius Imperator Germanicus”, (Aulus Vitellius empereur germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : I O MAX - CAPTOLI-LINVS.
Reverse description : Temple de Jupiter Capitolin à deux colonnes, à l’intérieur duquel se trouve la statue de Jupiter à demi-nu assis à gauche tenant un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Jupiter Optimus Maximus Capitolinus”, (Jupiter le Meilleur le Grand Capitolin).
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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