brm_292133 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 261
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,34 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie remarquable, parmi les plus rare du monnayage des légions. Flan ovale, idéalement centré des deux cotés. Rare portrait bien venu à la frappe et très beau revers de style fin
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire n°450 du trésor de la Guerche-sur-l’Aubois
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Gallien à gauche (O1).
Obverse translation : "Gallienus Augustus", (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LEG VIII AVG VI P VI F.
Reverse description : Taureau à droite.
Reverse translation : "Legio octavum augusta, sextum pia, sextum fidelis" (Huitième légion augustéenne pieuse et fidèle pour la sixième fois).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3. Monnaie absente du trésor de Cunetio. Deux exemplaires seulement recensés dans le MIR.38. Monnaie de la plus grande rareté !.
Heavyweight. Type 3 ribbons. Coin absent from the Cunetio hoard. Only two examples recorded in MIR.38. Coin of the utmost rarity!
Heavyweight. Type 3 ribbons. Coin absent from the Cunetio hoard. Only two examples recorded in MIR.38. Coin of the utmost rarity!
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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