brm_230511 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 135.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 135.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 266-267
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,99 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale et épais, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait magnifique. Frappe un peu molle au revers Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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 : FIDE-S AVG/ P XV.
Reverse description : Mercure nu debout à gauche, coiffé du pétase, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant une bourse de la main droite et un caducée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fides Augusti”, (La Fidélité de l'empereur).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3.
Heavy weights. With its superficial silvering. Type 3 ribbons
Heavy weights. With its superficial silvering. 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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