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v13_0797 - VICTORINUS Antoninien

VICTORINUS Antoninien XF
XF
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 381.12 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,68 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Légèrement décentré au revers, mais flan large. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
C.85  - RIC.116  - E.646  - AGK.12 b
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire vient de MONNAIES III, 22 octobre 1997, n° 232

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C M PIAVVONIVS 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 Marcus Piavvonius Victorinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Piavvonien Victorin pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : PA-X - A-(V)G.
Reverse description : Pax (La Paix) debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l’auguste).

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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