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Price : 200.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: mi
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan épais, centré des deux côtés. Très joli buste de l’empereur. Patine grise avec des reflets cuivrés, tachée
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 AE-QVIT.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, assise à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une enseigne militaire de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fides Æquitum”, (La Fidélité de la cavalerie).
Commentary
Poids exceptionnel ! Pour ce type, Jean-Marc Doyen a répertorié seize exemplaires avec douze coins de droit et seize coins de revers. C’est de loin l’un des types les plus rares et qui n’est pas toujours signalé comme tel dans les ouvrages généraux.
Exceptional weight! For this type, Jean-Marc Doyen has listed sixteen examples with twelve obverse dies and sixteen reverse dies. It is by far one of the rarest types and is not always reported as such in general works
Exceptional weight! For this type, Jean-Marc Doyen has listed sixteen examples with twelve obverse dies and sixteen reverse dies. It is by far one of the rarest types and is not always reported as such in general works
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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