MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : As, (MB, Æ 26)
Date: 138
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 12,93 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, avec des faiblesses de frappe sur les légendes. Très beau portrait. Joli revers inhabituel. Magnifique patine vert émeraude
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP T AELIVS CAES-AR ANTONINVS.
Obverse description : Tête nue d’Antonin le Pieux à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Titus Ælius Cæsar Hadrianus Antoninus”, (L’empereur Titus Aélius césar Hadrien Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TRIB - POT COS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Deux mains jointes tenant un caducée ailé et deux épis.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestas Consul”, (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Une des émissions les plus rares du début du règne d’Antonin César à la fin du règne d’Hadrien (donativum aux troupes). Ce type semble en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages de référence.
Heavyweight. One of the rarest issues from the beginning of the reign of Antoninus Caesar to the end of the reign of Hadrian (donativum to the troops). This type actually seems much rarer than reference works suggest.
Heavyweight. One of the rarest issues from the beginning of the reign of Antoninus Caesar to the end of the reign of Hadrian (donativum to the troops). This type actually seems much rarer than reference works suggest.
Historical background
ANTONINUS PIUS
(02/25/138-03/7/161)
Caesar
After the death of Aélius on January 1, 138, Hadrian, ill, must find a new Caesar. The climate of the beginning of the year 138 is well rendered by Mr. Yourcenar in the “Memoirs of Hadrian”. Hadrian adopts Antonin, a distant relative of his family. On the other hand, Hadrian obliges Antonin to jointly adopt Marc Aurèle, son of Annius Vérus and Lucius Vérus, son of Aélius. Hadrian, having settled his estate and dismissed his brother-in-law and the latter's grandson, could die peacefully on July 10, 138. Hated by the Senate, he was refused apotheosis. It will take the pugnacity of Antoninus to make him deified.
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