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| Estimate : | 145 € |
| Price : | 70 € |
| Maximum bid : | 70 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 October 2013 15:46:00 |
| bidders : | 10 bidders |
Type : Dupondius
Date: 137
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,72 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Revers de style fin. Belle patine verte, granuleuse avec de minuscules concrétions
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : HADRIANVS - AVG COS III P P.
Obverse description : Buste drapé tête nue d’Hadrien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Obverse translation : “Hadrianus Augustus Consul tertium Pater Patriæ”, (Hadrien auguste consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FORTV-NA AVG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Fortuna (la Fortune) debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fortuna Augusti”, (La Fortune de l’auguste).
Commentary
Portrait particulier. Nous sommes bien en présence d’un dupondius. Pour Hadrien, pour les émissions entre 134 et 138, nous n’avons pas de bustes radiés, mais seulement des bustes nus ou laurés. Seul le poids ou le type permet de trancher entre l’as et le dupondius.
A peculiar portrait. We are indeed in the presence of a dupondius. For Hadrian, for the issues between 134 and 138, we do not have radiate busts, but only nude or laureate busts. Only the weight or the type allows us to decide between the ace and the dupondius.
A peculiar portrait. We are indeed in the presence of a dupondius. For Hadrian, for the issues between 134 and 138, we do not have radiate busts, but only nude or laureate busts. Only the weight or the type allows us to decide between the ace and the dupondius.
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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