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v29_0365 - VABALLATHUS Antoninien

VABALLATHUS Antoninien AU/XF
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 1 100.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: mars - mai
Date: 272
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,95 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 5e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan court sur les légendes. Très beau portrait. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine verte et sable
Catalogue references :
C.5  - RIC.5  - RCV.11727 (1200$) - BN/RXII.11266 pl. 41 - Göbl361 a5 var. (1 ex.) - MRK.109 /6 (1000€)

Obverse


Obverse legend : [VAB]ALATHVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Vaballath à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Vabalathus Augustus”, (Vabalathe auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VE[NV]-S AVG/ *|-// .
Reverse description : Vénus Victrix (Vénus victorieuse) drapé, debout à gauche, tenant un casque de la main droite tendue et une haste transversale de la gauche, appuyée sur un bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Venus Augusti”, (Vénus de l’auguste).

Commentary


Poids extrêmement léger. Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF, (BN/RXII.1, n° 1265 R/ IVENVS AVG, Hercule) et 1266 pl. 41, graveur.

Historical background


VABALLATHUS

(267-272)

Augustus

Vaballath, son of Zenobia and Odenath, succeeded his father who was assassinated in 266 or 267. After a period of uncertainty during which the Palmyraeans occupied Syria, Palestine and Egypt while seeming to recognize the authority of Rome (from where the issuance of Antonians at the beginning of the reign of Aurelian), relations deteriorated quickly. Vaballath had himself proclaimed august in 272. Aurelian, after a short campaign, retook Egypt and engaged in a definitive battle which ended with the destruction of Palmyra and the capture of Vaballath and Zenobia who participated in his Triumph in 274.

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