v53_0316 - ANTONINUS PIUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 31)
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 650.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 456.00 €
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 650.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 456.00 €
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 31)
Date: 149
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,98 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier et épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Beau revers de style fin à l’usure régulière avec une faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Belle patine vert olive clair
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANTONINVS AVG - PIVS P P TR P XII.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Antonin le Pieux à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Antoninus Augustus Pius Pater Patriæ Tribunicia Potestate duodecimum”, (Antonin auguste pieux père de la patrie revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne pour la douzième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TEMPORVM FELICITAS/ S|C// COS IIII.
Reverse description : Deux cornes d’abondance entrecroisées surmontées d’une tête d’enfant affrontées.
Reverse translation : “Temporum Felicitas Consul quartum”, (Les temps de la Félicité consul pour la quatrième fois).
Commentary
Un seul ruban visible. Représentation inhabituelle du revers.
Only one ribbon visible. Unusual representation of the reverse
Only one ribbon visible. Unusual representation of the reverse
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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