v18_0305 - VITELLIUS Denier
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 296.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 319.00 €
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 296.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 319.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 07-12/69
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 800 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,17 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable avec un beau portrait sur un flan ovale et légèrement irrégulier. Revers intéressant. Une patine grise superficielle recouvre l’ensemble de la pièce
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : A VITELLIVS GERM IMP AVG TR P.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Vitellius à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Imperator Augustus Tribunicia Potestas”, (Aulus Vitellius germanique empereur auguste revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PONT - MAXIM.
Reverse description : Vesta voilée et drapée assise à droite sur un trône à dossier, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus”, (Grand pontife).
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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