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Live auction - brm_700975 - DIVUS ANTONINUS PIUS Denier

DIVUS ANTONINUS PIUS Denier AU
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Estimate : 220 €
Price : 310 €
Maximum bid : 310 €
End of the sale : 25 January 2022 15:03:30
bidders : 4 bidders
Type : Denier
Date: 161
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,42 g.
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté ainsi qu’un revers finement détaillé. Patine grise
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : DIVVS ANTONINVS.
Obverse description : Tête nue d'Antonin le Pieux à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Divus Antoninus”, (Divin Antonin).

Reverse


Reverse legend : CONSECRATIO.
Reverse description : Bûcher funéraire surmonté d'un quadrige vu de face.
Reverse translation : “Consecratio”, (Consécration).

Commentary


Avec ce revers, nous avons deux variétés de buste nu avec ou sans drapé sur l’épaule gauche. Le type avec la tête nue seulement semble plus rare. Suivant les exemplaires la représentation du bûcher funéraire (rogus) est légèrement différente, mais toujours avec quatre étages dont le premier est décoré et sert de base, le second avec des ouvertures.

Historical background


DIVUS ANTONINUS PIUS

(+7/03/161)

Consecration of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus

Antonin was born in 86. He already fell very ill in 144 and nearly died. From 160, the Emperor is continually bedridden. At the beginning of the year 161, Antonin no longer gets up and dies on March 7, 161. He is immediately deified by Marcus Aurelius and buried in the Mausoleum of Hadrian, the current Castel Sant'Angelo. The crematorium "Ustrinum Antonini Pii" seems to be the one that was already used for the cremation of Faustina the Elder in 141. It is located in Regio IX of the Circus Maximus, west of the Corso, near the current Piazza Montecitorio.

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