brm_279777 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 115.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 115.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 267-268
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,06 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan ovale, bien centrée. Joli portrait inhabituel. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection du baron Louis Chaurand, dispersée à Drouot le 10 avril 2012, lot n°234
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B4).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERO .P. CONS AVG// B.
Reverse description : Panthère passant à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Libero Pater Conservatori Augusti”, (À Liber, le père protecteur de l’empereur).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3. Émission dite du “bestiaire”. Type rarissime avec ce buste !.
Very light weight. Type 3 ribbons. Issue called “bestiary”. Extremely rare type with this bust!
Very light weight. Type 3 ribbons. Issue called “bestiary”. Extremely rare type with this bust!
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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