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Live auction - brm_572851 - AUREOLUS Antoninien

AUREOLUS Antoninien AU/AU
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Estimate : 150 €
Price : 92 €
Maximum bid : 100 €
End of the sale : 28 April 2020 15:22:41
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : Antoninien
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, bien centré. Superbe buste avec un portrait expressif. Joli revers. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP POSTVMVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Postume à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Postumus Augustus”, (L’empereur Postume auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : FIDES. E-QVIT // P.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) assise à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une enseigne de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fides Equitum”, (La Fidélité de la cavalerie).

Historical background


AUREOLUS

(267-268)

Coinage in Postumus' name

Auréolus, "Magister Equitum" since 260, enters Gaul with Gallien during the year 267 to reconquer the "Pars Occidentalis" of the Empire. Wounded, Gallien returned to Italy, abandoning Auréolus, defeated. Feeling betrayed, Aureolus returned to Italy, allied himself with Postumus and shut himself up in Milan, hence the coinage in the name of Postumus. Gallien runs up and besieges Auréolus, but he is assassinated at the instigation of the new master of the cavalry, Claudius II, who then leaves the besieged to be massacred, to whom he has promised his life in return for his surrender..

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