brm_910640 - HADRIAN Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 320.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 320.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 121
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 26,07 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau sesterce frappé sur un flan centré, à l’usure fine et régulière. De jolis détails malgré de petites faiblesses très localisées. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HAD-RIANVS AVG P M TR P COS III.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Hadrien à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium”, (L’empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : RESTITVTORI ORBIS TERRARVM// SC.
Reverse description : Hadrien drapé debout à gauche, tenant un volumen de la main gauche et et donnant la main droite à une allégorie assise tenant un globe.
Reverse translation : “Restitutori Orbis Terrarum”, (À celui qui réunit la terre entière).
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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