bpv_308364 - HADRIAN Tétradrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,74 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré avec le grènetis visible au revers. Beau portrait d’Hadrien avec une faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Revers inhabituel. Patine gris foncé de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré d’Hadrien à droite drapé sur l’épaule (O*2).
Obverse legend : AUT KAIS - TRAI - ADRIA SEB (Autokrator Kaisar Traianos Adrianos Sebastos).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L - .
Reverse description : Serpent Agathodaimon rampant à droite, surmonté d’un caducée (kerykeion).
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : (an 4).
Commentary
Un seul ruban visible à l’extrémité bifide.
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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