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Live auction - bpv_1017490 - HOSTILIAN Sesterce

HOSTILIAN Sesterce VF
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Estimate : 120 €
Price : 60 €
Maximum bid : 70 €
End of the sale : 13 May 2025 15:32:35
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Sesterce
Date: an 12
Mint name / Town : Viminacium, Mésie Supérieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,24 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure importante mais régulière. Buste agréable. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : C VAI HOST M QVIHTVS AVG (SIC!).
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue d’Hostilien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°2).
Obverse translation : “Caius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus”, (Caius Valens Hostilien Messius Quintus).

Reverse


Reverse legend : P M S C-OL VIM// AN XII.
Reverse description : La Mésie debout de face tournée à gauche, la main gauche tendue et tenant une corne d’abondance de la main droite ; de part et d’autre, un taureau à gauche tourné à droite et un lion à droite tourné à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Provinciæ Moesiæ Superioris Colonia Viminacium/ anno duodecimum”, (Province de Mésie Supérieure colonie de Viminacium/ an douzième).

Historical background


HOSTILIAN

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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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