brm_353852 - VITELLIUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: mai - juillet
Date: 69
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,2* g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale irrégulier, bien centré. Beau portrait expressif de Vitellius à l’usure importante. Revers bien venu à la frappe, de haut relief. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP AVG TR P.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Vitellius à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Imperator Augustus Tribunicia Potestate”, (Aulus Vitellius vainqueur des Germains empereur auguste revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne).
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, sibyllins).
Commentary
Rubans de type 1. Premier type de portrait de Vitellius. Grosse tête.
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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