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E-auction 511-422897 - brm_594237 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien

CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien XF
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Estimate : 40 €
Price : 18 €
Maximum bid : 18 €
End of the sale : 30 January 2023 14:11:30
bidders : 5 bidders
Type : Antoninien
Date: septembre 268 - début 269
Date: 268 - 269
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,40 g.
Officine: 8e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale à l’usure régulière. Joli revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Claude II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Claudius Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Claude auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : MARS - V-LTOR.
Reverse description : Mars casqué, nu, allant à droite, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un trophée posé sur l’épaule gauche de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Mars Ultor”, (Mars vengeur).

Commentary


Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3.

Historical background


CLAUDE II THE GOTHIC

(09/268-06-08/270)

Claudius II was appointed master of the cavalry after the defection of Aureolus and was part of the conspiracy that eliminated Gallien. Having promised to save life Aureolus after the death of Gallienus, he nevertheless left massacred by his troops after the surrender of Milan. Claudius II gained a brilliant victory over the Goths Naissus in upper Moesia. Unfortunately, defeated propagated the plague among the winners and Claude fell victim. He was deified after his death and a major counterfeiting restitution was struck by Aurelian in 270 first, then by Constantine I, who claimed descent from Claudius II, in the early fourth century.

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