brm_201668 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 262-263
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,27 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait mais revers de frappe molle, avec un flan cassé à 4 heures. Patine marron foncé aux reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : 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 : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDEI PRAET.
Reverse description : Aigle légionnaire entre deux enseignes.
Reverse translation : “Fidei Praetoria”, (La Fidélité prétorienne).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rare type monétaire, absent notamment du trésor de Cunétio (pourtant riche pour la période) avec le buste cuirassé, que nous proposons pour la première fois à la vente. Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages de référence.
Lightweight. Rare coin type, notably absent from the Cunetio treasure (which was nevertheless rich for the period) with the armored bust, which we are offering for sale for the first time. Seems much rarer than the reference works suggest.
Lightweight. Rare coin type, notably absent from the Cunetio treasure (which was nevertheless rich for the period) with the armored bust, which we are offering for sale for the first time. Seems much rarer than the reference works suggest.
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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