brm_335427 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 800.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 800.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 256-258
Mint name / Town : Viminacium
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,17 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure régulière avec un buste rare et inhabituel. Joli revers pour ce type souvent mal frappé. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste pointée vers l’avant et un bouclier.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Gallien Pieux et Heureux Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GERMANICVS MAXIMVS.
Reverse description : Trophée d'armes avec un captif de chaque côté.
Reverse translation : "Germanicus Maximus", (Vainqueur des Germains).
Commentary
Rubans de type 1. Monnaie exceptionnelle, l’un des rares types avec buste ornementé pour l’atelier de Viminacium ! Monnaie absente des trésors importants et type que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente.
Type 1 ribbons. Exceptional coin, one of the rare types with an ornamented bust for the Viminacium mint! A coin absent from important hoards and a type that we are presenting for the first time at sale.
Type 1 ribbons. Exceptional coin, one of the rare types with an ornamented bust for the Viminacium mint! A coin absent from important hoards and a type that we are presenting for the first time at sale.
Historical background
GALLIENUS
(07/253-08 or 09/268)
Augustus with Valerian I
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 Postumus, who first eliminated Salonin, 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 revolted.
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