E-auction 30-10127 - brm_275120 - AUREOLUS Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 95 € |
| Price : | 41 € |
| Maximum bid : | 96 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 November 2013 15:57:30 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,93 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré. Portrait de très beau style malgré une petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Joli revers pour ce type souvent fruste. Patine marron
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection du baron Louis Chaurand, dispersée à Drouot le 10 avril 2012, lot n°237
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C POSTVMVS 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 : FIDES EQVIT/ -|-// 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).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryga under the paludamentum
Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryga under the paludamentum
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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