v50_0037 - TRAJAN DECIUS Aureus
MONNAIES 50 (2011)
Starting price : 3 800.00 €
Estimate : 7 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 3 800.00 €
Estimate : 7 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aureus
Date: 250
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, légèrement voilé, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau portrait à l’usure superficielle. Très joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine de collection. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Bourgey du 8 mars 1999, n° 31
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Trajan Dèce à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B*4).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Messius Quintus Traianus Decius Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Messius Quintus Trajan Dèce auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VBERITAS AVG.
Reverse description : Uberitas (la Fertilité) debout à gauche tenant une bourse de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Uberitas Augusti”, (La Fertilité de l'auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
Historical background
TRAJAN DECIUS
(07/249-06/251)
Decius was born in 201 in Lower Pannonia. After a brilliant career which opened the doors of the Senate to him, he was governor of Lower Moesia under the reign of Alexander Severus. At the end of the reign of Philip, winner on the Danube of barbarian hordes, he was proclaimed august despite his refusal. He writes it to Philippe who does not believe him and marches against him. Philip and his son are killed in battle near Verona. Decius joins to his name that, prestigious, of Trajan. After a stint in Rome, Decius travels to the Danubian Limes. Deserted, the limes allowed the Goths to filter through, ravaging the Danubian provinces, where the Emperor originated. He fails to stem the invasion. From 250, a new plague ravages the Empire. The plague decimated population and herds and further weakened the limes. He began a persecution against Christians in 250 (Polyeucte, Corneille). The following year, he went to the limes, defeated the Goths, but his son was killed. He himself finds death while wanting to avenge him. He is the first emperor to fall in battle against the Barbarians.
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