brm_312915 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 261-262
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,06 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire parfaitement centré sur un flan ovale et épais. Portrait et revers de toute beauté, sans usure et avec l’intégralité de l’argenture superficielle. La monnaie a conservé son coupant et une partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERT AVG.
Reverse description : Libertas (la Liberté) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un bonnet de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Libertas Augusti”, (La Liberté de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Rubans de type 3.
Very heavy weight. Type 3 ribbons
Very heavy weight. Type 3 ribbons
Historical background
GALLIENUS
(07/253-08 or 09/268)
Augustus
Gallien, the son of Valérien I, was born in 218. He was immediately associated by his father with power and was in charge of the West, while his father went to the East. He won a brilliant victory over the Germans and consolidated the Rheno-Danubian limes. After the capture of Valérien in the East, Gallien must face on all fronts. The empire breaks up. Gaul, Spain, Germania and Brittany secede with Postum who first eliminated Salonin, the son of Gallien. It is the usurpation of Macrianus and Quietus in the East. Gallien will spend the last eight years of his life trying to put the pieces of this empire back together. Finally, he was assassinated in September 268 under the walls of Milan while besieging Aureolus, the master of the Cavalry, who had revolted.
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