bpv_977911 - HADRIAN Hemidrachme
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Type : Hemidrachme
Date: an 12
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,40 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli buste. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Hadrien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT KAI - TRAI ADRIA SEB (Autokrator Kaisar Traianos Adrianos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Euthenia (l’Abondance) drapée couchée à gauche, le coude gauche appuyé sur un sphinx placé à gauche et tenant des épis et un pavot de la main droite.
Reverse legend : L DwDEK
Historical background
HADRIAN
(08/11/117-07/10/138)
Hadrian was born in 76 in Italica. Pupil of Trajan, he married in 100 Sabine, grand-niece of the emperor, and made a career in the staff of the latter, in particular during the Dacian campaign. In 117, he succeeded Trajan, and traveled for twenty years, visiting the entire empire - the only Emperor to have lent himself to this exercise. In 122, Hadrian went to Spain. Childless, he first chose Aélius to succeed him in 136, but the latter died on January 1, 138. Hadrian then adopted Antonin on February 25 and himself chose Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as Antoninus' heirs. He died on July 10, 138.
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