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Live auction - brm_965428 - HERENNIUS ETRUSCUS Sesterce

HERENNIUS ETRUSCUS Sesterce XF/VF
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 250
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,76 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste finement détaillé au droit, revers plus usé. Patine verte
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : Q HER ETR MES DECIVS NOB C.
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue, d'Hérennius Étruscus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Obverse translation : "Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius Nobilissimus Cæsar", (Quintus Hérennius Étruscus Messius Dèce très noble césar).

Reverse


Reverse legend : PIETAS AVGG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Mercure, coiffé du pétase, nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant une bourse de la main droite et un caducée ailé de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pietas Augustorum", (La Piété des augustes).

Commentary


Au XIXe siècle un sesterce d’Hérennius Étruscus valait autant qu’un aureus de Néron.

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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