v18_0280 - TIBERIUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 36)
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 36)
Date: 22-23
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 35,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 26,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible en bronze, sans patine. Faiblesse de frappe sur le centre du revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection du XIXe siècle du Sud de la France
Obverse
Obverse legend : CIVITATIBVS ASIAE - RESTITVTIS.
Obverse description : Tibère assis à gauche, ses pieds reposant sur un tabouret (chaise curule), tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche.
Obverse translation : “Civitatibus Asiæ Restitutis”, (pour la restauration des cités d’Asie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST P M TR POT XXIIII.
Reverse description : Autour de SC.
Reverse translation : “Tiberius Cæsar Divi Augusti Filius Augusti Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas vicesimus quartus”, (Tibère césar fils du divin Auguste grand pontife revêtu de la vingt-quatrième puissance tribunitienne).
Commentary
Ce sesterce est bien en orichalque, du grec oreikhalkos, qui veut dire laiton. Ce métal ou alliage métallique est mentionné par plusieurs auteurs de l'Antiquité dont Pline. Le mot a désigné d'abord un métal précieux, puis des alliages du type bronze ou laiton. Le prix de la livre d’orichalque était de 3 deniers sous Auguste contre 2 seulement pour le cuivre.
Historical background
TIBERIUS
(19/08/14-16/03/37)
Augustus
Tiberius, the son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia, was born on November 16, 42 BC.. -VS. His father, Caesar's lieutenant during the War of Alexandria (48-47 BC. -VS. ), then rallied to Antoine. Octave kidnapped Livia, Tiberius' mother, and married her in 38 BC. -VS. while she is pregnant by Nero Drusus. To further complicate the family tree of the Julio-Claudians, Tiberius had to divorce Vipsania to marry Julie, the daughter of Augustus, widow of Agrippa (12 BC).. -VS. ). After having chosen him as heir, Augustus prefers his grandsons to him and Tiberius then goes into exile in Rhodes.. After a plot attempt by Julie, Tibère divorces her and will never see her again.. In 4, Augustus adopts Tiberius who succeeds him in 14. His reign will last 23 years. Germanicus, whom he did not love, died in 19. He lost his son Drusus in 23, murdered by his wife, Livilla, with the help of the prefect of the Praetorium, Séjan, her lover, who retained his power until 31. Denounced for his crimes by his sister-in-law, Antonia, Séjan is executed. Tiberius retired to Capri since the year 27, died, possibly assassinated, in 37 and his great-nephew Caligula, great-grandson of Augustus, succeeded him.
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