v28_0155 - TITUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 35)
MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 35)
Date: 80
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 35 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 27,31 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan lourd et épais. Frappe un peu molle au droit, mais parfaitement identifiable. Le flan a été légèrement gratté au revers. Patine noire légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER.
Obverse description : Auguste radié, nu jusqu’à la ceinture, le manteau sur l’épaule assis à gauche, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche et tenant une patère de la main droite, sacrifiant au-dessus d’un autel allumé.
Obverse translation : “Divus Augustus Pater”, (Divin Auguste père).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII/ REST.
Reverse description : Grand S C au centre.
Reverse translation : “Imperator Titus Cæsari Divi Filius Vespasianus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul octavum/ Restituit”, (L’empereur Titus césar fis du divin Vespasien grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la huitième fois a restitué).
Commentary
Pour ce sesterce, nous avons deux variétés avec ou sans REST au revers (BN/R. 276 et 277, pl. 87). Ce sesterce semble en fait beaucoup plus rare que le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Historical background
TITUS
(1/07/69-13/09/81)
Restoration coinage of Titus
Titus proceeded with a major issue of restitution for the Julio-Claudian family around 80, but only for the bronze coinage. At the head of this series of restitution, we find of course Augustus, the founder of the dynasty, but many other members of the Julia and Claudia people are associated with this coinage: Livia, Agrippa, Tiberius, Drusus senior, Drusus, son of Tiberius , Germanicus, Agrippina mother, and Claudius. Nero is absent from this series, perhaps because of the "damnatio memoriæ" to which he was subjected after his death. On the other hand, Galba, who does not belong directly to the Julio-Claudian family, although very close to Livia, wife of Augustus, is associated with it. In fact, Titus, by restoring the memory of the Julio-Claudian family and largely associating his father, Vespasian, after his death, legitimizes the new Flavian dynasty of which he is the second representative..
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