Quietus
    | Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. QUIETVS (Caius Fulvius), second son of Macrianus (one of the numerous usurpers that assumed the imperial title and authority in most of the Roman Provinces under the reigns of Valerianus and of Gallienus), was first named Caesar, and afterwards also Augustus, about the beginning of A.D. 261. His father and brother, however, having been overcome and slain by Aureolus, who afterwards himself assumed the purple, Quietus fled into Asia, and for a short time occupied Emesa, where he was besieged by Odenatus, Prince of Palmyra, and being taken prisoner was put to death A.D. 262. - Born with heroic qualities, he early distinguished himself in arms, and showed great talents for government both civil and military. But the Quies Augustorum was not enjoyed by Quietus. - On his coins he is styled IMP. C. FVLvius QVIETVS P.F. AVG. All the medals of this prince are of billon or in small brass, and very rare |
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Quietus
| Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. QUIETVS (Caius Fulvius), second son of Macrianus (one of the numerous usurpers that assumed the imperial title and authority in most of the Roman Provinces under the reigns of Valerianus and of Gallienus), was first named Caesar, and afterwards also Augustus, about the beginning of A.D. 261. His father and brother, however, having been overcome and slain by Aureolus, who afterwards himself assumed the purple, Quietus fled into Asia, and for a short time occupied Emesa, where he was besieged by Odenatus, Prince of Palmyra, and being taken prisoner was put to death A.D. 262. - Born with heroic qualities, he early distinguished himself in arms, and showed great talents for government both civil and military. But the Quies Augustorum was not enjoyed by Quietus. - On his coins he is styled IMP. C. FVLvius QVIETVS P.F. AVG. All the medals of this prince are of billon or in small brass, and very rare |
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