brm_123614 - HADRIAN Sesterce
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Price : 145.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 121
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 23,55 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait expressif. Exemplaire sans patine avec une usure régulière des deux côtés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS - HADRIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré d’Hadrien à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus", (L'empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PONT MA-X - TR POT - COS III/ S|C.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un caducée de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium", (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois).
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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