brm_279856 - AUREOLUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: mi
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,30 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré. Usure régulière. Patine marron foncé aux reflets métalliques
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 : VIRTVS EQVIT/ -|-// T.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) marchant à droite, tenant une haste pointée en avant de la main droite et un bouclier de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Equitum”, (La Virilité de la cavalerie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Pour ce type, Jean-Marc Doyen a répertorié 207 exemplaires avec 132 coins de droit et 143 coins de revers. C’est de loin l’un des types les plus courants .
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum. For this type, Jean-Marc Doyen listed 207 examples with 132 obverse dies and 143 reverse dies. This is by far one of the most common types.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum. For this type, Jean-Marc Doyen listed 207 examples with 132 obverse dies and 143 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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