brm_363524 - ANTONINUS PIUS As
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : As
Date: 138
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,93 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, servi par une magnifique patine vert olive foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP T AELIVS CAE-SAR 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 - C-OS/ PIE-TAS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite au dessus d’une autel et tenant son drapé de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestas Consul”, (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Type absent de tous les ouvrages consultés avec la tête nue !.
Very heavy weight. Type absent from all the works consulted with bare heads!
Very heavy weight. Type absent from all the works consulted with bare heads!
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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