brm_247627 - AUREOLUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,67 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan court et ovale mais bien centré. Très beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [IMP C POSTV]MVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Postume à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Postumus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Postume pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX E-QV-[ITVM]/ -|-// T.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche d’olivier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Equitum”, (La Paix de la cavalerie).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges très fines sous le paludamentum. Jean-Marc Doyen dans son étude sur Milan avait recensé vingt-deux antoniniens avec dix-neuf coins de droit et dix-huit coins de revers pour les pièces sans ponctuation.
With its superficial silver plating. Type 3 ribbons. Very fine pteryges under the paludamentum. Jean-Marc Doyen, in his study on Milan, had identified twenty-two antoninianus with nineteen obverse dies and eighteen reverse dies for coins without punctuation.
With its superficial silver plating. Type 3 ribbons. Very fine pteryges under the paludamentum. Jean-Marc Doyen, in his study on Milan, had identified twenty-two antoninianus with nineteen obverse dies and eighteen reverse dies for coins without punctuation.
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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