Live auction - brm_498163 - HERENNIUS ETRUSCUS Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 280 € |
| Price : | 175 € |
| Maximum bid : | 188 € |
| End of the sale : | 30 October 2018 14:42:02 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 250
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 400 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,53 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type. Très beau portrait d’Herennius. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Jean Elsen en 2001 et de la collection du Docteur S
Obverse
Obverse legend : Q HER ETR MES DECIVS NOB C.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé d'Hérennius Étruscus César à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : “Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius Nobilissimus Cæsar”, (Quintus Hérennius Étruscus Messius Dèce très noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS.
Reverse description : Hérennius Étruscus debout à gauche tenant une baguette de la main droite et une haste transversale de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Principi Iuventutis”, (Au Prince de la jeunesse).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Sur certains exemplaires la haste transversale du revers est remplacée par un sceptre.
Historical background
HERENNIUS ETRUSCUS
(spring 250-06/251)
Son of Trajan Decius - Caesar
Hérennius receives the title of Caesar in the course of the year 250 and becomes august at the time of his departure from Rome, in April or May 251, to go and fight the Goths with his father. He will find death there.
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