brm_714937 - VITELLIUS Denier

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Price : 350.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: mai - juillet

Date: 69

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰

Diameter : 18 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,17 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie centrée avec des faiblesses. Joli portrait. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

C.111 (3f.) - RIC.109 - BMC/RE.39 - RSC.111

Obverse

Obverse legend : A VITELLIVS GERM IMP AVG TR P.

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Vitellius à droite (O*).

Obverse translation : “Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Imperator Augustus Tribunicia Potestate”, (Aulus Vitellius vainqueur des Germains empereur auguste revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne).

Reverse

Reverse legend : XV VIR - SACR FAC.

Reverse description : Trépied delphien surmonté d’un dauphin tourné à droite ; aux pieds du trépied, un corbeau tourné à droite.

Reverse translation : “Quindecimvir Sacris Faciundis”, (Collège des quinze prêtres chargés des livres sacrés, sibyllins).

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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