brm_222451 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Price : 67.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 265
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,00 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine grise métallique, légèrement piquée
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection de Keith Emmet (spécialiste d’Alexandrie)
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSERVATOR AVG.
Reverse description : Esculape debout de face, tournée à gauche, tenant de la main droite un bâton sur lequel s’enroule un serpent.
Reverse translation : “Conservator Augusti”, (Sauveur de l’(auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. C’est la seule utilisation de cette légende de revers sous Gallien. C’est l’une des dernières apparitions d’Esculape dans le monnayage qui est ici présenté comme le sauveur et le protecteur de l’empereur. Gallien serait-il tombé malade. Nous savons qu’il faillit perdre la vie deux fois et qu’il fut blessé en combattant Postume.
Heavy weights. With all its silvering. This is the only use of this reverse legend under Gallienus. This is one of the last appearances of Aesculapius in the coinage who is here presented as the savior and protector of the emperor. Would Gallien have fallen ill? We know that he almost lost his life twice and was wounded fighting Postume
Heavy weights. With all its silvering. This is the only use of this reverse legend under Gallienus. This is one of the last appearances of Aesculapius in the coinage who is here presented as the savior and protector of the emperor. Would Gallien have fallen ill? We know that he almost lost his life twice and was wounded fighting Postume
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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