Live auction - bpv_507228 - URANIUS ANTONINUS Tétradrachme

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Estimate :	4 000 €
Price :	1 800 €
Maximum bid :	1 800 €
End of the sale :	04 December 2018 14:30:47
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Tétradrachme

Date: 254

Mint name / Town : Émèse, Syrie

Metal : billon

Diameter : 25,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 10,19 g.

Rarity : UNIQUE

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable. Buste très particulier d’Uranius Antoninus. Revers de style fin. Épaisse patine de collection ancienne, granuleuse

Catalogue references :

Prieur 1053 var. - RPC.1899 (1 ex. )pl. 128 (cet exemplaire)

Predigree :

Cet exempaire provient de la vente CNG e-Auction 322, n° 478 (avec son étiquette)

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé d’Antoninus Antoninus à droite (A).

Obverse legend : AUTO K SOULP ANTwNINOS S.

Reverse

Reverse legend : // S|C.

Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes déployées, la tête à droite, tenant un couronne dans son bec.

Reverse legend : DHMARC EX OUSIAS UPATO// B.

Commentary

Cet exemplaire est illustré dans le Roman Provincial Coinage, vol. IX, pl. 128, n° 1899. Il est pour le moment toujours unique.

Historical background

URANIUS ANTONINUS

(253-254)

Lucius Julius Aurelius Sulpicius Uranius Antoninus seized power when the Sassanids of Sapor I (241-272) invaded Syria and seized Antioch. The new emperor organizes the defense of Emesa, center of the cult of El Gabal. Uranius Antoninus remained in power until the arrival of Valerian I in the East. This emperor is only known by these coins and left no trace in the sources under his Roman name, but perhaps of Sampsigeramus who was high priest of the cult.