brm_940018 - HADRIAN Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 138
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,12 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli buste. Revers agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : HADRIANVS - AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Hadrien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : “Hadrianus Augustus”, (Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CLEMENTIA AVG COS III P P.
Reverse description : Clementia (la Clémence) drapée de bout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Clementia Augusti Consul tertium Pater Patriæ", (la Clémence de l'auguste consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
Historical background
HADRIAN
(+10 /07/138)
Posthumus issues
Events precipitated in 138. After the death of Sabine the previous year, it was the turn of Aélius, the adopted son of Hadrian to die at the beginning of the year (January 1). The emperor is sick and misanthropic. He eliminates his brother-in-law and his grand-nephew and purges the Senate before adopting Antonin on February 10, 138. When he dies on July 10, 138, the resentful senators first refuse the deification of their enemy. It will take all the pugnacity of Antoninus to obtain the divine homage for his adoptive father whose ashes are deposited in the cenotaph, which has now become the Castel Sant'Angelo. Antonin, meanwhile, will be awarded the title of "Pius" for his determination and his Piety.
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