brm_338539 - AUREOLUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 135.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 135.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: mi
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,44 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale avec un portrait remarquable pour cet atelier ! Joli revers. Patine marron foncé aux reflets métalliques
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).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Légende de revers ponctuée. Pour ce type, Jean-Marc Doyen a répertorié 182 exemplaires avec 127 coins de droit et 135 coins de revers. C’est de loin l’un des types les plus courants.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. Punctuated reverse legend. For this type, Jean-Marc Doyen listed 182 examples with 127 obverse dies and 135 reverse dies. This is by far one of the most common types.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. Punctuated reverse legend. For this type, Jean-Marc Doyen listed 182 examples with 127 obverse dies and 135 reverse dies. This is by far one of the most common types.
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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