brm_126388 - VICTORINUS Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 45.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 45.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 269-270
Mint name / Town : Cologne
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,49 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan large. Beau portrait. Jolie patine marron avec des reflets métalliques. Revers décentré. Faiblesse de frappe sur certaines lettres au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Victorin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Victorinus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Victorin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIET-AS AVG.
Reverse description : Pietas (La Piété) debout à gauche, drapée, tenant une boîte à encens (acerra) de la main gauche et sacrifiant au-dessus d'un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : "Pietas Augusti", (La Piété de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle.
Heavy weights. With its superficial silvering
Heavy weights. With its superficial silvering
Historical background
VICTORINUS
(10-11/269-09/271)
Victorin spent his entire career under the reign of Postumus, of whom he was one of the main civil collaborators. He succeeds Marius, who died just after Postumus. Victorin definitively loses Spain at the beginning of the reign and has to face seditions in Brittany and Gaul. The siege of Autun, a university town in Gaul, lasted seven months. Shortly after, Victorin was assassinated in Cologne by one of his officers, a jealous husband, when he had just restored order in Gaul with the capture of Autun. His mother, Victorine, continues to play an important role in choosing the successor of her son, Tétricus..
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