brm_274218 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 261
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,83 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan ovale, bien centré au droit. Usure sur le portrait mais très beau revers pour un type souvent fruste ! Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection du baron Louis Chaurand, dispersée à Drouot le 10 avril 2012, lot n°233
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gallien à droite drapé sur l’épaule gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LEG II PART VI P VI F.
Reverse description : Centaure bondissant à droite, la main droite tendue et tenant la massue d’Hercule de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Legio secunda Parthica sextum pia, sextum fidelis”, (Deuxième légion Parthique pieuse et fidèle pour la sixième fois).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles. L’épisème de la deuxième légion Parthica était le Centaure. C’est la seconde fois que nous proposons à la vente un antoninien de cette légion qui semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux malgré le chiffre de quarante-quatre exemplaires, fourni par Gôbl.
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryges. The episema of the second Parthica legion was the Centaur. This is the second time we have offered for sale an antoninianus of this legion, which seems rarer than general works suggest, despite the figure of forty-four examples, provided by Gôbl
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryges. The episema of the second Parthica legion was the Centaur. This is the second time we have offered for sale an antoninianus of this legion, which seems rarer than general works suggest, despite the figure of forty-four examples, provided by Gôbl
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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