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Type : Antoninien
Date: janvier - automne
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,28 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Joli buste. Patine gris foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Claude II à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Claudius Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Claude pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDE-S M-ILIT/ -|-// S.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une enseigne militaire dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Historical background
CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS
(09/268-06-08/270)
Claude II is appointed Master of the Cavalry after the defection of Auréolus and is part of the plot which eliminates Gallien. Having promised Auréolus his life after the death of Gallienus, he nevertheless lets his troops massacre him after the surrender of Milan. Claudius II wins a brilliant victory over the Goths at Naissus, in Upper Moesia. Unfortunately, the vanquished spread the plague among the victors and Claude fell victim to it. He is deified after his death and an important restitution coinage is minted by Aurelian first in 270, then by Constantine I, who claimed to be descended from Claudius II, at the beginning of the 4th century..
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