v41_0794 - TRAJAN DECIUS Double Sesterce, (GB, Æ 35)
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 850.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 850.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Double Sesterce, (GB, Æ 35)
Date: début - mi
Date: 250
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 35 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 41,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, très large et irrégulier. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Beau portrait. Revers un peu mou. Jolie patine vert olive profond granuleuse et légèrement poreuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Trajan Dèce à droite avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Caius Marcus Quintus Traianus Decius Augustus”, (L'empereur Caius Marc Quintus Trajan Dèce auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICITAS SAECVLI/ S|C.
Reverse description : Felicitas (La Félicité) debout à gauche, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Sæculi”, (La Félicité du Siècle).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Pour le double sesterce, nous avons deux types de buste (A2) ou (B01). Ce type fut éphémère. Cependant, le double sesterce a bien circulé, il suffit de regarder notre exemplaire.
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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