brm_625498 - ANTONINUS PIUS Denier
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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 141
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 850 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,40 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Flan irrégulier et échancré entre 1 et 3 heures. Superbe portrait. Revers parfaitement venu à la frappe. Exemplaire recouvert d’une fine patine avec des reflets dorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANTONINVS AVG PI-VS P P TR P COS III.
Obverse description : Buste lauré d’Antonin le Pieux à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Antoninus Augustus Pius Pater Patriæ Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium”, (Antonin auguste pieux père de la patrie revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CLEMEN-TIA AVG.
Reverse description : Clementia (la Clémence) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Clementia Augusti”, (La Clémence de l’auguste).
Commentary
Un seul ruban visible. Au droit, le portrait d’Antonin avec le pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule gauche semble totalement inédit et absent de tous les ouvrages consultés ! Le recours à la Clémence est inhabituelle dans le monnayage romain.
Only one ribbon is visible. On the right, the portrait of Antoninus with the paludamentum on his left shoulder seems completely new and absent from all the works consulted! The use of Clemency is unusual in Roman coinage.
Only one ribbon is visible. On the right, the portrait of Antoninus with the paludamentum on his left shoulder seems completely new and absent from all the works consulted! The use of Clemency is unusual in Roman coinage.
Historical background
ANTONINUS PIUS
(02/25/138-03/7/161)
Augustus
Antonin was born on September 19, 86 in Lanuvium. His family is from Gaul (Nîmes). He was a wealthy senator who married Faustina the Elder between 110 and 115 and thus entered Hadrian's family by marriage. After the death of Aelius on January 1, 138, Hadrian chose Antonin to succeed him on February 25, 138, adding two adopted sons, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. Hadrian dies on July 10 and Antonin succeeds him. He must first fight to deify Hadrian, enemy of the Senate. In 139, Marc Aurèle becomes Caesar and Faustina Augusta. His reign is calm and happy and symbolizes the "Pax Romana" of the second century. In 148, he commemorated with pomp the 900th anniversary of Rome.
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