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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 256-258
Mint name / Town : Atelier 2 d'Asie, Samosate
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,26 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, centré. Très beau buste de Gallien, stylisé. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron
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 Licinius Gallienus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Licinius Gallien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ORIENS - AVG.
Reverse description : L'Orient et Gallien debout face à face ; l'Orient, radié et drapé, est debout et couronne Gallien ; l’empereur est vêtu militairement et tient une haste ; au-dessus, dans le champ, une couronne.
Reverse translation : "Oriens Augusti", (Le Soleil de l'auguste).
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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