brm_511637 - MANLIA SCANTILLA As
650.00 €(Approx. 676.00$ | 539.50£)
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Type : As
Date: 193
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,13 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire présentant une usure importante mais beau droit et joli patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MANL SCAN-TILLA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste drapé à droite vu de trois quarts en avant avec les cheveux retenus en arrière (L).
Obverse translation : “Manlia Scantilla Augusta”, (Manlia Scantilla augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [IVNO REG]IN[A]/ [S|C].
Reverse description : Junon, voilée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long ; à ses pieds, un paon à gauche, tournant la tête à droite.
Reverse translation : “Iuno regina”, (Junon reine).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce type, déjà rare en sesterce, reste rarissime en as ! C’est la première fois que nous en présentons un à la vente. H. Cohen l’avait déjà bien compris en donnant une valeur de 200 francs or, soit le prix d’un aureus rare ou d’un médaillon.
Historical background
MANLIA SCANTILLA
(193)
Wife of Dide-Julien, mother of Didia Clara - Augusta
After Pertinax's death, the Praetorians auction off the Empire. It is Dide Julien, senator and jurist, who wins by offering 25,000 sesterces per soldier. Part of the people, revolted by this method, appealed to the armies to get rid of the new tyrant. Pescennius Niger, Albin and Septimius Severus respond to Rome's expectations. Thus broke out the second civil war, after that of 68-69. Abandoned by all at the approach of the troops of Septimius Severus, the quickest to reach Rome, Dide Julien was beheaded on June 2 and his "damnatio memorial" pronounced. Manlia Scantilla is the wife of Dide Julien. It was she who, according to the Histoire Auguste, would have forced her husband to buy the Empire and to be awarded for herself and her daughter Didia Clara, the title of augusta. No one knows what happens to the mother and daughter after the death of Dide Julien.
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