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bpv_538170 - GALLIENUS Octassaria

GALLIENUS Octassaria XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Octassaria
Date: 253-254
Mint name / Town : Héliopolis (Baalbeck), Syrie,
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,20 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré. Beau buste de Gallien. Revers tout fait inhabituel, bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
C.1465  - Lindgren2171 var. (Valérien Ier)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP CAES P LIC GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Gallienus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Gallien auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : CER SAC CAP - OE-C IS[EL]/ C/O/L - H/EL.
Reverse description : Athlète nu debout de face, marchan tà gauche, tournant la tête à droite, tenant un vase (récompense) de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Certanem Sacrum Capitolinum Oecumenicum Iselastium Heliopolitanum”, (Le concours sacré de Jupiter capitolin de la colinie d’Héliopolis œcuménique et honorique).

Commentary

Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de la collection Lindgren, n° 2171, pl. 87.

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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