brm_622330 - HOSTILIAN Antoninien
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Price : 120.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 120.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 251
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 400 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,77 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire, légèrement décentré, à l’usure régulière. Joli buste. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINTVS N C.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé d'Hostilien César à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : “Caius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus Nobilissimus Cæsar”, (Caius Valens Hostilien Messius Quintus très noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS.
Reverse description : Hostilien debout à gauche en habit militaire tenant une enseigne de la main droite et un sceptre vertical de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Principi Iuventutis”, (Au Prince de la Jeunesse).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
HOSTILIAN
(+251)
Son of Trajan Decius - Caesar
Hostilian, second son of Trajan Decius and Etruscille became Caesar at the end of the year 250, perhaps when his brother Herennius Etruscus received the title of august. When Trajan and his eldest son leave Rome to fight the Goths and find death, Hostilian stays in Rome with his mother..
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