brm_198816 - HADRIAN As
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 110.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 110.00 €
Type : As
Date: 131
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,33 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, légèrement échancré à 3 heures, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait. Très joli revers. Belle patine vert olive, légèrement granuleuse
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Obverse
Obverse legend : HADRIANVS - AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue d'Hadrien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Obverse translation : “Hadrianus Augustus”, (Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COS - III P P / S|C // FORT RED.
Reverse description : Fortuna (la Fortune) assise à gauche, tenant un gouvernail posé sur un globe de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consul Tertium Pater Patriæ / Senatus Consulto // Fortuna Reduci”, (Consul pour la troisième fois Père de la Patrie, par Décret du Sénat, la Fortune retrouvée).
Commentary
Type de buste tout à fait inhabituel. Revers lié au retour de la seconde série des voyages d’Hadrien.
A very unusual type of bust. Reverse linked to the return of the second series of Hadrian's voyages.
A very unusual type of bust. Reverse linked to the return of the second series of Hadrian's voyages.
Historical background
HADRIAN
(08/11/117-07/10/138)
Hadrian was born in 76 in Italica. Pupil of Trajan, he married in 100 Sabine, grand-niece of the emperor, and made a career in the staff of the latter, in particular during the Dacian campaign. In 117, he succeeded Trajan, and traveled for twenty years, visiting the entire empire - the only Emperor to have lent himself to this exercise. In 122, Hadrian went to Spain. Childless, he first chose Aélius to succeed him in 136, but the latter died on January 1, 138. Hadrian then adopted Antonin on February 25 and himself chose Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as Antoninus' heirs. He died on July 10, 138.
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