brm_842140 - HADRIAN Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 1 800.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 1 800.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 123
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 32, mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 23,44 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait d’Hadrien. Revers finement détaillé. Agréable patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRI-ANVS AVG P M TR P COS III.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Hadrien à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul Tertium", (L’empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste grand pontife consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERTAS - PVBLICA/ -|-// S.C.
Reverse description : Libertas (La Liberté) drapée assise à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Libertas Publica", (La Liberté publique).
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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