Live auction - brm_1119838 - VABALLATHUS Antoninien
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Live starting : Type : Antoninien
Date: mars - mai
Date: 272
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,06 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Revers agréable à l’usure régulière. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C VHABALATHVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Vaballath à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Vabalathus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Vaballath auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IVENVS AVG/ -|*// (SIC!).
Reverse description : Hercule debout à droite, la léonté sur le bras, tenant sa massue et trois pommes.
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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