brm_261143 - GALLIENUS Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 20,89 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan quadrangulaire, dans un état de conservation hors du commun pour un bronze de la période ! Très beau portrait. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PIC LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Gallien à droite avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien pieux heureux auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERALITAS AVGG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Liberalitas (la Libéralité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un abaque de la main droite, une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Liberalitas Augustorum”, (la Libéralité des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3.
Heavy weights. Type 3 ribbons
Heavy weights. Type 3 ribbons
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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