fme_1046408 - ANTINOUS Médaille, Reproduction d’une monnaie de bronze frappée à Chalcédoine, Antinoüs, n°390
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Type : Médaille, Reproduction d’une monnaie de bronze frappée à Chalcédoine, Antinoüs, n°390
Date: 1978
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Quantity minted : 500
Metal : copper
Diameter : 69 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 181,90 g.
Edge : lisse + corne CU + 1978 + N°390/500
Puncheon : corne CU
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec quelques taches d’oxydation et rayures sur l’ensemble de la reproduction. L’avers présente quelques concrétions et résidus blanchâtres
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANTINOOC - HSC.
Obverse description : Buste d’Antinoüs à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE GRECQUE).
Reverse description : Homme sur un griffon. Corne d’abondance à l’exergue.
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans un écrin bleu attribué à C.F. MAUREAU provenant de la Monnaie de Paris.
Medal preserved in a blue case attributed to CF MAUREAU from the Paris Mint
Medal preserved in a blue case attributed to CF MAUREAU from the Paris Mint
Historical background
ANTINOUS
(+130)
Antinous, a young man of Greek origin, was born in Claudiopolis of Bithynia between 108 and 110. During his trip to Bithynia in 128, Hadrian noticed the young man who was of great beauty. Antinous followed his friend on his second journey. In 130, he was accidentally drowned in the Nile and Hadrian was greatly saddened. To commemorate the memory of his friend, he founded the city of Antinopolis and authorized the Greek cities of Asia Minor to raise altars to him and to consecrate a temple to him, which put Sabina, Hadrian's wife, in great anger. The traditional circles of Rome did not forgive the Emperor for this love for this young man, nor for the cult that the Emperor devoted to him after his death. Hadrian never recovered from the loss of his friend and became a misanthrope. Marguerite Yourcenar, in her novel "The Memoirs of Hadrian", immortalized the affair of the two men.
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