v31_0179 - CIVIL WARS Denier

MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
Realised price : 504.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 504.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: janvier

Date: 69

Mint name / Town : Germanie, Cologne

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰

Diameter : 17,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,24 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés avec un argent légèrement corné. Très bel exemplaire, non fourré. Très légèrement décentré au revers. Une épaisse patine grise recouvre l’exemplaire

Catalogue references :

C.363 - RIC.121 - BMC/RE.65 - BN/R.75 - RCV.2084 (2000$) - MRK.15 /12 (2000€) - Giard/L1.353

Obverse

Obverse legend : FIDES/EXERCITV(VM) EN DEUX LIGNES.

Obverse description : Deux mains jointes.

Obverse translation : “Fides Exercituum”, (La Fidélité des armées).

Reverse

Reverse legend : FIDES/ PRAETORIANORVM.

Reverse description : Deux mains jointes.

Reverse translation : “Fides Prætorianorum”, (La Fidélité des prétoriens).

Commentary

Exemplaire non fourré.

Historical background

CIVIL WARS

(68-69)

After the disappearance of Vindex, troubles persisted in Gaul for another two years. First rallied to Galba, the Rhine armies sided with Vitellius who was proclaimed in early January 69 by his troops. After the disappearance of Vitellius in Rome on December 20 by the Danubian troops who had rallied Vespasian, the troubles did not cease in Gaul. The rebirth of a "Gallic" particularism and the ephemeral "Gallic Empire", proclaimed by Civilis, the Batavian, joined by Julius Tutor and Julius Classicus, both Treveri and Julius Sabinus of Lingon, were to cause a reaction from Rome. Vespasian, the new emperor, sent Q. Petillius Cerialis to Gaul to crush the sedition. The Gauls were defeated on the Moselle and the conspirators then experienced various fates. Gaul had returned to obedience to Rome.

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