v09_0364 - HOSTILIAN Antoninien
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 203.06 €
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 203.06 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 03-06/251
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 400 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,93 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. A été légèrement nettoyé / Frappe molle au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINTVS N C.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé d'Hostilien à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : "Caius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus Nobilissimus Cæsar", (Caius Valens Hostilien Messius Quintus noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS.
Reverse description : Hostilien debout à gauche, vêtu militairement, tenant de la main droite une enseigne et de la gauche une haste renversée.
Reverse translation : (Prince de la Jeunesse).
Historical background
HOSTILIAN
(+251)
Son of Trajan Decius - Caesar
Hostilian, second son of Trajan Decius and Etruscille became Caesar at the end of the year 250, perhaps when his brother Herennius Etruscus received the title of august. When Trajan and his eldest son leave Rome to fight the Goths and find death, Hostilian stays in Rome with his mother..
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