v08_0390 - HOSTILIAN Antoninien

MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 289.65 €
Realised price : 182.94 €

Type : Antoninien

Date: 03-06/251

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : + 400 ‰

Diameter : 22 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 2,95 g.

Rarity : R2

Officine: 6e

Emission: 4e

Coments on the condition:

Beau portrait avec une jolie patine de collection. Flan large et irrégulier / Bien centré avec un flan légèrement éclaté

Catalogue references :

C.5/225-6 (10f.) - RIC.4-3/143-174

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 Hostilien Messius Quintus noble césar).

Reverse

Reverse legend : CONCORDIA AVGG.

Reverse description : Deux mains jointes.

Reverse translation : (La Concorde des Augustes).

Commentary

Trace de surfrappe au revers sur un type plus ancien. Poids très léger.

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..

HOSTILIAN Sesterce VF

125.00 €

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HOSTILIAN Tétradrachme syro-phénicien VF

175.00 €

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HOSTILIAN Tétradrachme syro-phénicien AU

280.00 €

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HOSTILIAN Tétradrachme syro-phénicien AU

350.00 €

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HOSTILIAN Sesterce XF

350.00 €

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HOSTILIAN Tétradrachme syro-phénicien VF

195.00 €

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v08_0390 - HOSTILIAN Antoninien

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

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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