v21_3214 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Type : Antoninien
Date: septembre 268 - mi-269
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,79 g.
Officine: 7e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan très épais. Beau portrait. Revers de haut relief. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CLAVDIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Claude II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Claudius Augustus”, (L’empereur Claude auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIVS EXERCI -|Z.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie) coiffé du modius, debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Genius Exercitus”, (Le Génie de l’armée).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Trace de frappe incuse au revers. Sans argenture.
Very heavy weight. Trace of incuse strike on the reverse. Without silver plating.
Very heavy weight. Trace of incuse strike on the reverse. Without silver plating.
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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