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Type : Antoninien
Date: 251
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 400 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés. Superbe buste d’Hostilien, bien venu à la frappe. Revers à l’usure régulière. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINTVS N C.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé d'Hostilien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : “Caius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus Nobilissimus Cæsar” (Caius Valens Hostilien Messius Quintus, très noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MARS PR-OPVG.
Reverse description : Mars casqué, en habit militaire, courant à droite, tenant une haste de la main droite et un bouclier de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Mars Propugnator” (Mars combattant).
Historical background
HOSTILIAN
(+251)
Son of Trajan Decius - Caesar
Hostilian, second son of Trajan Decius and Etruscille became Caesar at the end of the year 250, perhaps when his brother Herennius Etruscus received the title of august. When Trajan and his eldest son leave Rome to fight the Goths and find death, Hostilian stays in Rome with his mother..
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