brm_372729 - MANLIA SCANTILLA Sesterce

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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 180.00 €

Type : Sesterce

Date: 193

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : copper

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 16,80 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan à l’usure très importante, mais identifiable, en particulier au droit. Le revers est fruste. Patine marron foncé

Catalogue references :

C.6 (50f.) - RIC.18 a - RC.1717 (1250£) - RCV.6083 (5000€) - BMC/RE.32

Obverse

Obverse legend : MANLIA 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 REGINA]/ 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.

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.

MANLIA SCANTILLA As VF

650.00 €

Full data

MANLIA SCANTILLA Sesterce VF

750.00 €