v23_0370 - VITELLIUS Denier

MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 445.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 888.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: 04-12/69

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰

Diameter : 18,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,10 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Beau portrait. Usure régulière. Exemplaire parfaitement lisible. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

C.47 - RIC.105 - BMC/RE.31 - BN/R.68 - RCV.- - MRK.19 /30 (1500€)

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 Potestas" (Aulus Vitellius Germanique, Imperator Auguste, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne).

Reverse

Reverse legend : LIBERTAS - RESTITVTA.

Reverse description : Libertas (La Liberté) debout à droite, vue de face, tenant un bonnet de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.

Reverse translation : (La Liberté retrouvée).

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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