v28_0208 - DIVUS ANTONINUS PIUS Sesterce (GB, Æ 32)
MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce (GB, Æ 32)
Date: 161
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 23,84 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Flan éclaté à 3 heures. Usure importante au revers. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVVS - ANTONINVS.
Obverse description : Tête nue d’Antonin le Pieux à droite (O).
Obverse translation : “Divus Antoninus”, (Divin Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSE-CRATIO.
Reverse description : Bûcher funéraire surmonté d'un quadrige vu de face.
Reverse translation : “Consecratio”, (Consécration).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Avec ce revers, nous avons deux variétés de buste nu avec ou sans drapé sur l’épaule gauche. Suivant les exemplaires la représentation du bûcher funéraire (rogus) est légèrement différente, mais toujours avec quatre étages dont le premier est décoré et sert de base, le second avec des ouvertures.
Very light weight. With this reverse, we have two varieties of naked bust with or without drapery on the left shoulder. Depending on the specimen, the representation of the funeral pyre (rogus) is slightly different, but always with four levels, the first of which is decorated and serves as a base, the second with openings
Very light weight. With this reverse, we have two varieties of naked bust with or without drapery on the left shoulder. Depending on the specimen, the representation of the funeral pyre (rogus) is slightly different, but always with four levels, the first of which is decorated and serves as a base, the second with openings
Historical background
DIVUS ANTONINUS PIUS
(+7/03/161)
Consecration of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
Antonin was born in 86. He already fell very ill in 144 and nearly died. From 160, the Emperor is continually bedridden. At the beginning of the year 161, Antonin no longer gets up and dies on March 7, 161. He is immediately deified by Marcus Aurelius and buried in the Mausoleum of Hadrian, the current Castel Sant'Angelo. The crematorium "Ustrinum Antonini Pii" seems to be the one that was already used for the cremation of Faustina the Elder in 141. It is located in Regio IX of the Circus Maximus, west of the Corso, near the current Piazza Montecitorio.
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