brm_980741 - AURELIAN Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: printemps - fin
Date: 274
Mint name / Town : Cyzicus
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,31 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Joli revers, de haut relief. Buste à l’usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé d’Aurélien à droite, drapée sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Aurelianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Aurélien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ORIE-N-S AVG/ -|B// XXI.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié, nu, le manteau sur l’épaule gauche, debout à gauche, levant la main droite, tenant un globe de la gauche ; à ses pieds, à gauche, un prisonnier assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Oriens Augusti”, (L’Orient de L’auguste).
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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