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v25_0392 - HOSTILIAN Sesterce, (GB, Æ 31)

HOSTILIAN Sesterce, (GB, Æ 31) VF
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 195.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 252.00 €
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 31)
Date: 251
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,90 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e-5e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan quadrangulaire avec un beau portrait. Usure importante, mais exemplaire parfaitement lisible et identifiable
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINTVS N C.
Obverse description : Buste, tête nue, d'Hostilien à droite, avec paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°22).
Obverse translation : "Caius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus Nobilissimus Caesar", (Caius Valens Hostilien Messius Quintus très noble césar).

Reverse


Reverse legend : PRINCIPI [IVVENTVTIS]// SC.
Reverse description : Apollon à demi nu assis à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et accoudé à une lyre.
Reverse translation : "Principi Iuventutis", (Au Prince de la jeunesse).

Commentary


Poids lourd.

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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