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bpv_524807 - VABALLATHUS Tétradrachme

VABALLATHUS Tétradrachme VF/VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 600.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 5, printemps-été
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,41 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait au droit. Revers piqué. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection ENP

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


L’un des deux types frappés au nom de Vaballath seul pour Alexandrie.

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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