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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 300.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 300.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 259
Mint name / Town : Atelier secondaire d’Orient (Samosate)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 200 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,43 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait inhabituel et bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers bien conservé. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (B11).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRT-VS AVGG.
Reverse description : Valérien et Gallien, vêtus militairement debout face à face. Gallien est debout à gauche tourné à droite, lauré, tenant une haste de la main droite et un globe dans la main gauche. Valérien est radié, tenant une victoriola de la main droite et un sceptre ou une haste transversale de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Buste rare ! Type absent des principaux trésors que nous proposons pour la première fois à la vente !.
A rare bust! A type not found in the main treasures we are offering for sale for the first time!
A rare bust! A type not found in the main treasures we are offering for sale for the first time!
Historical background
GALLIENUS
(07/253-08 or 09/268)
Augustus with Valerian I
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 Postumus, who first eliminated Salonin, 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 revolted.
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