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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 65.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 65.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 265-266
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Superbe portrait de haut relief. Beau revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Gallien à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gallienus Augustus”, (L’empereur Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS AVG/ -|-// P.
Reverse description : Esculape nu jusqu’à la ceinture, debout de face, tourné à gauche, la main droite sur la hanche et s’appuyant de la main gauche sur un bâton sur lequel s’enroule un serpent.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augusti”, (La Santé de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Portrait tout à fait inhabituel.
Heavyweight. With all its silver plating. A very unusual portrait.
Heavyweight. With all its silver plating. A very unusual portrait.
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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