brm_275884 - TITUS Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 80
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 26,62 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan lourd et épais. Joli droit et usure importante au revers. Type rarissime, recherché. Patine marron recouvrant un nettoyage très ancien
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection du baron Louis Chaurand, dispersée à Drouot le 10 avril 2012
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVO/ AVG/ VESP// SPQR.
Obverse description : Vespasien, drapé, assis à droite sur un quadrige d’éléphants, tenant une victoriola de la main gauche et un sceptre long de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Divus Augustus Vespasianus”, (Divin Vespasien 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
Ce sesterce semble en fait beaucoup plus rare que le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux, c’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente !.
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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