brm_238286 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien
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Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: septembre-novembre 268
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,06 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Claude II. Revers inhabituel. Patine noire légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C CLAVDIVS 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 : ADVENTVS AVG.
Reverse description : Claude II à cheval, au pas, allant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Adventus Augusti”, (L’Arrivée de l’auguste).
Commentary
Sans Argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.
Without silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum
Without silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum
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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