bpv_666247 - HADRIAN Tétradrachme

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Type : Tétradrachme

Date: an 12

Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 14,58 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie centrée. Très joli buste. Revers à l’usure régulière. Patine foncée

Catalogue references :

MRMA.32 .464 - D.1709

Predigree :

Exemplaire de la collection Aymé Cornu

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Hadrien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).

Obverse legend : AUT KAI- TRAI - ADRIA SEB (Autokrator Kaisar Traianos Adrianos Sebastos).

Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : L .

Reverse description : Euthenia couché à gauche, tenant des épis et des coquelicots, le coupe reposant sur un sphinx.

Reverse legend : DwDEK.

Reverse translation : (an 12).

Historical background

HADRIEN

(11/08/117-10/07/138) Publius Ælius Hadrianus

Hadrian was born in Italica 76. Ward of Trajan, he married 100 great-niece of the Emperor, Sabine, and had a career in the General Staff of the Emperor, especially when the Dacian campaign. In 117 he succeeded Trajan, and traveled for twenty years, visiting all of the Empire, the only emperor to have done. In 122, Hadrian visited in Spain. Childless, he chose first Aelius to succeed him in 136, but he died on 1 January 138. Hadrian then adopted on 25 February and Antonin himself chooses Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as heirs of Antoninus. He died 10 July 138.

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bpv_666247 - HADRIAN Tétradrachme

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Historical background

HADRIEN

(11/08/117-10/07/138) Publius Ælius Hadrianus

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