Live auction - brm_909574 - LUCILLA Sesterce
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Live starting : Type : Sesterce
Date: c. 166
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 25,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais à l’usure plus marquée au revers qu’au droit. Beau buste de Lucille. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : LVCILLAE AVG M ANTONINI AVG F.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Lucille à droite avec un petit chignon ramené derrière la tête (L).
Obverse translation : “Lucillæ Augustæ Marcii Antonini Augusti Filia”, (À Lucille augusta fille de Marc Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VENVS/ -|-// SC.
Reverse description : Vénus debout à gauche, portant une pomme de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Venus”, (Venus).
Commentary
C’est la première fois que nous présentons ce type à la vente qui est beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Historical background
LUCILLA
(+182)
Augusta
Born in 149, Lucille was married by her father to Lucius Vérus in 164. She may have received the title of Augusta in 161. After the death of her husband in 169, she married Pompeianus, an old senator, friend of Marcus Aurelius. When Commodus succeeds his father, he honors his sister, but Lucille plots against him. She was exiled to Capri, then executed in 182.
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