brm_994328 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 270.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 270.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,11 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Superbe revers, finement détaillé. Joli buste. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Gallienus Augustus", (L’empereur Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICT GE-RMANICA.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) courant à droite, les ailes ouvertes, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un trophée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Victoria Germanica", (La Victoire germanique).
Commentary
Type absent des principaux trésors dont Eauze, pourtant riche pour les monnaies de la période.
Type absent from the main treasures including Eauze, although rich in coins from the period
Type absent from the main treasures including Eauze, although rich in coins from the period
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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