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Antoninianus - Victorinus PIETAS
| Issuer | Gallic Empire |
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| Year | 269-270 |
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| Currency | Antoninianus (260-274) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Pietas stands facing left in the central field, draped in long robes, raising one hand toward a small altar set to her left while holding a patera or sacred implement in the other hand. The figure is rendered in the provincial style characteristic of the Cologne mint, with simplified but recognizable iconographic attributes. The Latin legend PIETAS AVG surrounds the type, invoking the piety and religious devotion of the emperor. The field shows considerable wear and porosity consistent with a circulated billon issue, yet the main figural elements remain distinguishable. No exergual mark is visible on this example. |
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Victorinus ruled the breakaway Gallic Empire for less than two years before being murdered in early 271, almost certainly by an officer whose wife Victorinus had seduced. His coins were struck at Cologne and Trier during a period when the central Roman mint had effectively lost control of the western provinces entirely — a separation that had begun under Postumus in 260 and would not be resolved until Aurelian crushed Tetricus in 274. The billon content by this point was so debased that the "silver" designation is largely nominal.