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Price : 45.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: c. 259-260
Mint name / Town : Atelier secondaire d’Orient (Samosate)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 300 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,15 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré, granuleux. Beau portrait inhabituel de Gallien. Revers de style fin. Épaisse patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVGG/ *.
Reverse description : Valérien Ier et Gallien, laurés, debout, en toge, face à face sacrifiant de la main droite au-dessus d’un autel allumé ; celui de gauche, debout à droite, tient un scipio de la main gauche ; celui de droite, debout à gauche, tient un sceptre court de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustorum”, (La Piété des augustes).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
With its surface silvering. Heavy weight. Type 3 ribbons. Thin pteryges. This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
With its surface silvering. Heavy weight. Type 3 ribbons. Thin pteryges. This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
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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