brm_779604 - VITELLIUS Denier

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Price : 550.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: mai - juillet

Date: 69

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰

Diameter : 18 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,22 g.

Rarity : R2

Officine: 1re

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie idéalement centrée. Joli portrait de Vitellius, bien venu à la frappe. Revers détaillé. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

C.21 (8f.) - RIC.66 - BMC/RE.1 - BN/R.31 - RCV.2196 (1360$) - RSC.21

Obverse

Obverse legend : A VITELLIVS GERMANICVS IMP.

Obverse description : Tête nue de Vitellius à droite (O°).

Obverse translation : “Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Imperator”, (Aulus Vitellius germanique empereur).

Reverse

Reverse legend : CONCOR-DIA P R.

Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) assise à gauche, drapée, tenant de la main droite, une patère et de la gauche, une double corne d'abondance.

Reverse translation : “Concordia Populus Romanus”, (La Concorde du Peuple romain).

Historical background

VITELLIUS

(2/01-20/12/69)

Vitellius was proclaimed on January 1 or 2, 69 by the armies of Germania. After Bédriac and the disappearance of Othon, in April 69, Vitellius moved to Rome in June. Vespasian was proclaimed by the army in Alexandria on July 1, 69 and Vitellius could not maintain himself. After a sedition broke out in Rome in December, he was assassinated on the 20th, and his body dragged into the Tiber, leaving Vespasian as sole ruler of the Roman Empire..

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