brm_653595 - ANTONINUS PIUS As
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Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2022)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : As
Date: 138
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,47 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli portrait. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP T AELIVS CAE-SAR ANTONINVS.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue d’Antonin à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Titus Ælius Cæsar Hadrianus Antoninus”, (L’empereur Titus Aélius césar Hadrien Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TRIB POT COS/ PIE-TAS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée, drapée, debout à gauche, versant de l’encens de la main droite tendue au-dessus d’un autel allumé et tenant une boîte à parfums (accera) de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestas Consul/ Pietas”, (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul/ la Piété).
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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