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brm_516137 - CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien

CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS Antoninien XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 500.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: septembre 268 - janvier 269
Date: 268 - 269
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,00 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan ovale avec un métal qui semble de bon aloi. Joli buste. Patine grise
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Claude II à gauche, en nudité héroïque, vu de trois quarts en arrière, haste et égide devant (F19).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Claudius Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Claude pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : [P]AX - EX-ER[C] // [T].
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une branche d’olivier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Exercitus”, (La Paix de l’Armée).

Commentary


Poids lourd. Ce type est rare, le RIC temp. (n°19) n’en recense que 2 exemplaires et dans l’ouvrage d’A. Toffanin (n°297/3) sur Milan, ce type est hors cote !.

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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