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| Estimate : | 750 € |
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| End of the sale : | 08 November 2016 14:54:41 |
Type : Antoninien
Date: début - automne
Date: 272
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,867 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite avec l’égide sur l’épaule, vus de trois quarts en avant (B02) ; le buste cuirassé est orné d’une tête d’Aurélien radié et d’une tête de Séverine posée sur un croisant, affrontées !.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Aurelianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CON-SER/ -|-// S.
Reverse description : Aurélien lauré, en habit militaire, debout à droite, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche et recevant de la main droite un globe que lui présente Jupiter nu, debout à gauche, avec son manteau déployé derrière lui, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori”, (À Jupiter le protecteur).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines. Petite égide sur l’épaule. Cuirasse ornementée des bustes d’Aurélien et de Séverine de la plus grande rareté. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF (BN/RXII.1, n° 1000, pl. 32). Seulement cinq exemplaires recensés pour cette rare variété tous de même coin de droit.
Heavyweight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. Small aegis on the shoulder. Breastplate decorated with the busts of Aurelian and Severine of the greatest rarity. Same obverse die as the copy in the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF (BN/RXII.1, no. 1000, pl. 32). Only five examples recorded for this rare variety, all with the same obverse die
Heavyweight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. Small aegis on the shoulder. Breastplate decorated with the busts of Aurelian and Severine of the greatest rarity. Same obverse die as the copy in the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF (BN/RXII.1, no. 1000, pl. 32). Only five examples recorded for this rare variety, all with the same obverse die
Historical background
AURELIAN
(07/270-09/275)
Aurelian was born around 207 in Sirmium. After a brilliant military career, he was proclaimed august at Sirmium after the death of Claudius II and remained sole emperor after the suicide of Quintille. He made the painful decision to abandon Dacia in 271, then attacked Zenobia and Vaballath by seizing Palmyra in 272. Then, he undertook the reconquest of the Gallic Empire and defeated Tetricus at Châlons-sur-Marne. He triumphs in Rome and saves the life of his famous prisoners. He was assassinated when he was preparing a campaign against the Sassanids in order to reconquer Mesopotamia..
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