brm_230586 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 55.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 55.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: septembre 268 - début 269
Date: 268-269
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique de haut relief. Frappé avec un coin mou au revers. Jolie patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C CL-AVDIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Claude II à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Claudius Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Claude auguste) .
Reverse
Reverse legend : SPES PVBLICA.
Reverse description : Spes (l’Espérance), drapée, debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une fleur de la main droite et relevant sa robe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Spes Publica”, (L’Éspérance publique).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges invisibles. Césure de légende de droit inhabituelle. Accident de frappe.
Very heavy weight. With all of its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Invisible pteryges. Unusual legend caesura. Minting accident
Very heavy weight. With all of its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Invisible pteryges. Unusual legend caesura. Minting accident
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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