v28_0328 - VABALLATHUS Tétradrachme, (MB, Æ 20)

MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Tétradrachme, (MB, Æ 20)

Date: an 5, printemps-été

Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte

Metal : copper

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 7,42 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Patine marron foncé

Catalogue references :

BMC.2397 - Milne4352 - Curtis1750 - MRKA.- - AC.3910 (2 ex. - RCV.11731 (1200$)

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste lauré et diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Vaballath à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A').

Obverse legend : AUT K OUABALLAqOS AqENOU SEB, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Ouaballaoqos Aqenoudorou Sebastos)

Obverse translation : (l’Empereur césar Vaballath Athénodoros auguste).

Reverse

Reverse description : Homonoia (la Concorde) drapée debout à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant une double corne d’abondance de la main gauche.

Reverse legend : L-E

Reverse translation : (an 5).

Commentary

Poids léger. L’un des deux types frappés au nom de Vaballath seul pour Alexandrie. C’est la première fois que nous proposons un tétradrachme de Vaballath seul.

Historical background

VABALLATHUS

(267-272)

Augustus

Vaballath, son of Zenobia and Odenath, succeeded his father who was assassinated in 266 or 267. After a period of uncertainty during which the Palmyraeans occupied Syria, Palestine and Egypt while seeming to recognize the authority of Rome (from where the issuance of Antonians at the beginning of the reign of Aurelian), relations deteriorated quickly. Vaballath had himself proclaimed august in 272. Aurelian, after a short campaign, retook Egypt and engaged in a definitive battle which ended with the destruction of Palmyra and the capture of Vaballath and Zenobia who participated in his Triumph in 274.

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