Live auction - bpv_678595 - ANTONINUS PIUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 139
Mint name / Town : Mopsus, Cilicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 11,64 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine grise superficielle. A été nettoyé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé d’Antonin le Pieux à droite, vu de trois-quarts en arrière, (A*21).
Obverse legend : AUT KAIS T AIL AD ANTwNEINOS SEB EU P P.
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Titus Aelius Hadrien Antonin auguste pieux père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle de face, ailes déployées, tête et queue à droite, sur une ligne de terre, un autel tripode et tricorne entre les pattes.
Reverse legend : ADRIANwN MOUEATwN.
Reverse translation : (Des habitants de Mopsos d’Hadrien).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, onze exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés dont trois en musées, l’un au British Museum, déjà cité, un second à Berlin et l’autre à Paris, Fonds Général ex Waddington 4382. Cet exemplaire est illustré dans l’ouvrage de M&K Prieur, p. 87, n° 728.
Historical background
ANTONINUS PIUS
(02/25/138-03/7/161)
Augustus
Antonin was born on September 19, 86 in Lanuvium. His family is from Gaul (Nîmes). He was a wealthy senator who married Faustina the Elder between 110 and 115 and thus entered Hadrian's family by marriage. After the death of Aelius on January 1, 138, Hadrian chose Antonin to succeed him on February 25, 138, adding two adopted sons, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. Hadrian dies on July 10 and Antonin succeeds him. He must first fight to deify Hadrian, enemy of the Senate. In 139, Marc Aurèle becomes Caesar and Faustina Augusta. His reign is calm and happy and symbolizes the "Pax Romana" of the second century. In 148, he commemorated with pomp the 900th anniversary of Rome.
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