brm_557544 - HADRIAN Sesterce
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Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 133 - 134
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 18,76 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Flan idéalement centré. Très beau portrait d’Hadrien. Fine usure régulière au revers. Patine foncée
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection M. P
Obverse
Obverse legend : HADRIANVS - AVG COS III P P.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Hadrien à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Hadrianus Augustus Consul tertium Pater Patriæ”, (Hadrien auguste consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELIC-I-TAS AVG// S C.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) debout à gauche, tenant de la main droite un caducé et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, une roue.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas augusti”, (La Félicité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Hadrien a obtenu son troisième consulat en 119. Malgré les années écoulées entre son obtention et la frappe de ce sesterce, le troisième restera son dernier consulat. Ce type de droit débute en 133 et ne prendra fin qu’en 138, à sa mort.
Lightweight. Hadrian obtained his third consulship in 119. Despite the years that elapsed between its acquisition and the minting of this sestertius, the third would remain his last consulship. This type of right began in 133 and would not end until 138, upon his death.
Lightweight. Hadrian obtained his third consulship in 119. Despite the years that elapsed between its acquisition and the minting of this sestertius, the third would remain his last consulship. This type of right began in 133 and would not end until 138, upon his death.
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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