brm_230404 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 85.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 258-259
Mint name / Town : Atelier secondaire d’Orient (Samosate)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,03 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier bien centré. Portrait particulier. Joli revers, brouillé par la frappe incuse. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gallienus Augustus”, (L’empereur Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA GERMAN.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) et Gallien debout face à face ; la Victoire est debout à gauche tournée à droite, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche ; Gallien est lauré et vêtu militairement, tenant un globe de la main droite et une longue haste renversée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Germanica”, (La Victoire germanique).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Coin choqué, trace de frappe incuse du droit visible au revers.
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Corner dented, trace of incuse strike on the right visible on the reverse
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Corner dented, trace of incuse strike on the right visible on the reverse
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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