brm_335045 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: fin 268 - début 269
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,04 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Patine gris foncé aux reflets métalliques
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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 : VIRT-VS AVG // ..
Reverse description : Minerve debout de face, regardant à droite, tenant une lance de la main droite et un bouclier posé à terre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.
Very heavy weight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum
Very heavy weight. 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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