brm_763028 - HADRIAN Sesterce
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Price : 70.00 €
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Price : 70.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 122
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,66 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste d’Hadrien. Usure plus importante au revers. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAESAR TRAIAN - HADRIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé d'Hadrien à droite drapé sur l’épaule gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus", (L'empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M T-R P C-OS - III/ VIRT /S| AVG/ C.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) debout à gauche, casquée, le sein droit découvert, le pied droit posé sur un casque, tenant de la main gauche une haste renversée et de la main droite le parazonium.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium Virtus Augusti", (Grand Pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois, la Virilité de l'auguste).
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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