brm_433382 - AUREOLUS Antoninien
Not available.
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,98 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan particulièrement ovale mais bien centré. Joli buste et très beau revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Reyssouze
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 : CONCORD EQVIT// S.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un gouvernail ; à ses pieds à gauche, une proue de navire.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Equitum”, (La Concorde 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..
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sell
Full data
Your Recently Viewed Items
LEO I Nummus (PBQ, Æ 4) VF/XF
125.00 €
GALERIUS Follis ou nummus AU
150.00 €
DIOCLETIAN Aurelianus AU/AU
33.00 €
AQUILIA SEVERA Sesterce AU
1250.00 €
CHARLES IX Douzain aux deux C, 1er type 1574 Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avi
25.00 €
MOROCCO 2 1/2 Dirhams Abdul Aziz I an 1321 1903 Paris VF
90.00 €
cgbfr.com numismatists
