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Live auction - brm_552926 - HERENNIA ETRUSCILLA Antoninien

HERENNIA ETRUSCILLA Antoninien MS
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Estimate : 350 €
Price : 220 €
Maximum bid : 220 €
End of the sale : 29 October 2019 14:55:47
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Antoninien
Date: 251
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 400 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré avec les grènetis complets. Portrait d’Étruscille de toute beauté. Revers bien venu à la frappe, finement détaillé. Très jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : HER ETRVSCILLA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé d'Étruscille à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, posé sur un croissant (L15) avec la chevelure ondulée.
Obverse translation : “Herennia Etruscilla Augusta”, (Herennia Étruscille augusta).

Reverse


Reverse legend : FECVNDITAS AVGG.
Reverse description : Fecunditas (la Fécondité) drapée debout de face, regardant à gauche, tendant la main droite à un enfant à ses pieds, et tenant une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fecunditas Augustorum”, (Le Fécondité des l’augustes).

Commentary


Poids lourd. le doublement du G dans la légende du revers indique que deux augustes sont associés (Trajan Dèce et Herennius Etruscus ou Hostilien et Trébonien Galle).

Historical background


HERENNIA ETRUSCILLA

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Wife of Trajan Decius, Mother of Herennius Etruscus and Hostilian - Augusta

Étruscille comes from the Italian aristocracy. She was about forty years old when she received the title of augusta in 249, as part of the second issue of Trajan Decius. The following year, his eldest son Herennius Etruscus received the title of Caesar, then was proclaimed august when his father left to fight the Goths. They will both find death there. Before leaving, Trajan Decius names Caesar his second son, Hostilian, who is proclaimed august after the death of his father and his brother, perhaps at the instigation of the new august, Trebonian Galle. Étruscille, who remained in Rome, continues to be associated with coinage. Hostilian died at the end of the summer or at the beginning of the autumn of 251, victim of the plague or of his protector, Trebonian Galle, who hastened to proclaim his son Volusian august. Etruscille disappears from the coinage. She retreats into private life or is perhaps murdered, history does not say.

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