brm_126620 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,23 g.
Officine: 9e
Coments on the condition:
Flan irrégulier. Avec une très grande partie de son argenture
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C CLAV[DIVS] 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 : IOVI VIC-TORI/ -|N.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu, debout de face, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Victori”, (A Jupiter victorieux).
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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