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Obv.: IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG
Rev.: CONCO-RDIA-MILI
In Exergue: P
Bust: D1
Mint: Siscia, first emission
Date: October-November 270
RIC temp 1919
RIC 167
The type may have been produced in the following historical circumstances. Aurelian was proclaimed emperor by the army based at Sirmium and the Pannonian mint of Siscia began immediately striking coins in his name from September 270 AD. The Vandal campaign was short and an imperial victory forced the barbarians to negotiate. A treaty was concluded: barbarian hostages were given to the Romans, 2,000 Vandal horsemen joined the Roman auxiliary forces, while the rest of the Vandal forces were supplied with provisions and escorted to the Danube; that’s probably at this moment that the type CONCORDIA MILI (the harmony with the soldiers of the 2 armies) was struck by the mint.
Aurelian gave orders for an imperial donative to be prepared by the mint of Siscia to celebrate two events: the victory over the Vandals and the defection of Quintillus’s armies to Aurelian’s side. Claudius’s brother, who had moved against his rival, had been eliminated by his own troops at Aquileia before he could even pass the Julian Alps at the beginning of November 270. However, Aurelian was forced to leave Pannonia as soon as he had concluded the treaty with the Vandals.
Collection : Aurelian