brm_623126 - HADRIAN Aureus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 3 000.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 3 000.00 €
Type : Aureus
Date: 121
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,02 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire présentant un beau buste fin et un revers inhabituel
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAESAR TRAI-AN HADRIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste héroïque, lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Hadrien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P - COS III.
Reverse description : Jupiter debout de face, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium// Saeculo Aureo”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois, le siècle d’or).
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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