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Aureus - Tetricus I Bust right, VIRTVS
| Issuer | Gallic Empire (Roman splinter states) |
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| Year | 272 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Tetricus I facing right, rendered in the characteristic late Roman imperial style with a bearded effigy. The emperor wears a radiate crown atop a bearded portrait of notable individuality, with paludamentum visible at the shoulder. The circumferential legend reads IMP C TETRICVS P F AVG in Latin capitals around the bust within the coin's irregular hammered flan. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Tetricus I came to power not through military victory but by appointment — elevated by the armies of Gaul in 271 after the assassination of Victorinus, whose mother Victoria reportedly engineered the succession. His reign was already precarious from the start, and by 274 he had surrendered to Aurelian at the Battle of Châlons without meaningful resistance, effectively dissolving the Gallic Empire he'd inherited. An aureus bearing his name is consequently rare by any Roman imperial measure; gold issues from this breakaway state were struck in limited quantities, and the administrative machinery supporting them was always fragile.
Schulte 21a distinguishes this obverse pairing within a small die corpus for the type.