brm_315561 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 900.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 900.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 263-266
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,60 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire spectaculaire, frappé sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux cotés. Buste quasi SUP au droit et joli revers. Patine marron foncé aux reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Gallien à gauche, avec un pan de paludamentum et une lance transversale sur l’épaule gauche.
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A-EQVIT AVG.
Reverse description : Æquitas (l’Équité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æquitas Augusti”, (L’Équité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. C’est l’un des bustes les plus spectaculaires et rares pour Gallien que nous proposons pour la première fois à la vente. C’est le quatrième exemplaire recensé.
Heavyweight. This is one of the most spectacular and rare busts of Gallienus that we are offering for sale for the first time. This is the fourth example recorded.
Heavyweight. This is one of the most spectacular and rare busts of Gallienus that we are offering for sale for the first time. This is the fourth example recorded.
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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