brm_973633 - HADRIAN Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 118
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 21,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Joli sesterce sur flan centré, présentant une usure superficielle. Métal piqué mais beau buste de l’empereur. Patine verte
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré d'Hadrien à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Divi Traiano Parthico Filio Divi Nervæ Nepoti Traiano Hadriano Augusto”, (À l’empereur césar fils du divin Trajan parthique petit-fils de Nerva Trajan Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PONT MAX TR POT COS II/ S|C // FORT RED.
Reverse description : Fortuna (La Fortune) drapée, assise à gauche, tenant un gouvernail de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul iterum// Fortuna Redux”, (Grand Pontife revêtu de la Puissance Tribunitienne Consul pour la deuxième fois// La Fortune Retrouvée).
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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