bpv_672492 - HERENNIA ETRUSCILLA Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 249
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 10,01 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles à l’usure superficielle. Patine grise, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé et diadémé d’Herennia Etruscilla à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, posé sur un croissant lunaire (L15), une S sous le buste.
Obverse legend : ERENNIA ETROUSKILLA SEB
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Caius Messius Quintus Trajan Dèce auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S C À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur une palme, les ailes déployées, tête à gauche et queue à droite, tenant une couronne feuillée dans son bec.
Reverse legend : DHMARC EX OUSIAS
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne / avec l’accord du Sénat d’Antioche).
Commentary
Axe des coins inhabituel. On note que les sigma sont gravés en C.
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, sept exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés pour ce type, dont en musée, un à l’ANS et deux à Doura/Yale.
Unusual corner axis. We note that the sigma are engraved in C. In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, seven examples are now listed for this type, including in a museum, one at the ANS and two at Doura/Yale
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, sept exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés pour ce type, dont en musée, un à l’ANS et deux à Doura/Yale.
Unusual corner axis. We note that the sigma are engraved in C. In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, seven examples are now listed for this type, including in a museum, one at the ANS and two at Doura/Yale
Historical background
HERENNIA ETRUSCILLA
(+251)
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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