brm_315557 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 262
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,08 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale et bien centré. Très beau buste malgré une usure marquée. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : "Gallienus Augustus", (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDEN AVG.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant un bâton placé au-dessus d’un globe et tenant une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Augusti”, (la Providence de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Il s’agit sans aucun doute de l’un des bustes les plus spectaculaires et rares du monnayage de Gallien ! Type de buste que nous proposons pour la première fois à la vente.
Lightweight. This is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular and rare busts in the Gallienus coinage! This is the type of bust we are offering for sale for the first time.
Lightweight. This is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular and rare busts in the Gallienus coinage! This is the type of bust we are offering for sale for the first time.
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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