brm_716581 - AUREOLUS Antoninien
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Price : 125.00 €
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Price : 125.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,02 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Très joli revers. Patine gris foncé
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. 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).
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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