brm_710784 - HADRIAN Sesterce
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Price : 1 000.00 €
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Price : 1 000.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 136
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 25,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire, centré des deux côtés. Très joli buste ainsi qu’un revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine vert foncé-marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : HADRIANVS - AVG COS III PP.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé 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 : RESTITVTORI GALLIAE// S C.
Reverse description : Hadrien debout à gauche, tourné à droite, relevant une femme agenouillée, tenant une branche d'olivier de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Restitutori Galliæ”, (Au restaurateur de la Gaule).
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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