brm_1055465 - AURELIAN Antoninien
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Price : 90.00 €
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Price : 90.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: novembre 270
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,95 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, épais, centré. Joli buste. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste d’Aurélien, tête radiée, à droite, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Aurelianus Augustus”, (Empereur Aurélien Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIV-S I-LLVR/ *|-// S.
Reverse description : Genius (Le Génie) nu, le manteau sur l’épaule gauche, debout de face regardant à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche ; derrière lui, à droite, une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Genius Illuriciani”, (Le Génie de L’Illyrie).
Commentary
Seulement trois exemplaires de ce type dans le catalogue de La Venèra.
Only three examples of this type in the La Venèra catalog
Only three examples of this type in the La Venèra catalog
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 and then attacked Zenobia and Vaballath by seizing Palmyra in 272. Then he undertook the reconquest of the Gallic Empire and defeated Tetricus at Châlons. 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. With the reform, Aurélien tried to recreate a truly coherent monetary system that had completely disappeared since the end of Gallien's reign. A return to monetary orthodoxy, the victories over Palmyra and the Gallic Empire allowed this monetary restoration which was to survive somehow until the reform of Diocletian in 294. Apparently the denarius, sometimes silver, was worth half the new coin called aurelianus or antoninianus.
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