v09_0145 - ANTESTIA Denier
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
Realised price : 114.34 €
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
Realised price : 114.34 €
Type : Denier
Date: 146 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 950 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,76 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Jolie patine de collection / Revers bien centré et complet
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : C. ANTESTI.
Obverse description : Tête de Rome à droite, casquée ; devant X.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMA À L'EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Les Dioscures, Castor et Pollux (Les Gémeaux) à cheval, galopant à droite. Ils sont cuirassés avec le manteau flottant sur l'épaule, coiffés d'un bonnet surmonté d'une étoile, tenant chacun une javeline ; sous les chevaux, un chien.
Historical background
ANTESTIA
(146 BC)
In 146 BC Cneius Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Memmius are consuls. This year sees the end of the siege of Carthage and the destruction of the great African metropolis while its population is massacred or reduced to slavery. The province of Africa is instituted. A conflict opposes the Romans to the members of the Achaean confederation. Diaeus is defeated by the consul Lucius Memmius who seizes Corinth and destroys the city. This year also marks the end of the sedition in Macedonia and the elimination of Andriscus who claimed to be the son of Perseus. Macedonia is also reduced to a province and definitively loses its autonomy..
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