brm_282342 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 85.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 254-256
Mint name / Town : Viminacium
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,30 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré, à l’usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLEINVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gallienus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Gallien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SAECVLI FELICITAS.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant un long caducée de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Saeculi Felicitas”, (La Félicité du siècle).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. L’atelier impérial de Viminacium a commencé à frapper sous le règne d’Émilien comme l’a démontré Laurent Schmitt (MONNAIES XXVI, n° 398). C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente qui est totalement inédit avec ce buste.
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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