brm_315532 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 650.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 263-264
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré des deux cotés sur un flan large et ovale. Portrait à l’usure régulière. Joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS AVG GER.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à gauche, levant la main droite (adlocutio).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gallienus Augustus Germanicus”, (L’empereur Gallien auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LAETITIA AVG.
Reverse description : Lætitia (la Joie) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un gouvernail de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Lætitia Augusti”, (La Joie de l’auguste).
Commentary
C’est l’une des monnaies les plus rares pour le règne de Gallien avec un buste extraordinaire et rarissime. C’est le second exemplaire connu pour ce type et c’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.
This is one of the rarest coins from the reign of Gallienus, featuring an extraordinary and extremely rare bust. This is the second known example of this type, and it is the first time we have offered it for sale.
This is one of the rarest coins from the reign of Gallienus, featuring an extraordinary and extremely rare bust. This is the second known example of this type, and it is the first time we have offered it for sale.
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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