brm_278452 - TITUS As
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : As
Date: 77-78
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,59 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de TItus à l’usure régulière. Revers tout à fait inhabituel. Patine marron, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : T CAES IMP AVG F TR P C-OS VI CENSOR.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Titus à droite (O*), un globe à la pointe du cou.
Obverse translation : “Titus Cæsar Imperator Augusti Filius Tribunicia Potestate Consul sextum Censor”, (Titus césar fils de l’empereur auguste revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la sixième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - NAVALIS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) debout à droite, sur une proue de navire, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Navalis”, (La Victoire Navale).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 2. Ce type est en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux et se rencontre plus facilement pour Vespasien que pour Titus. C’est la dernière émission pour l’atelier de Lyon qui ferme ensuite ses portes pour plus d’un siècle.
Lightweight. Type 2 ribbons. This type is actually much rarer than general works suggest and is more easily found for Vespasian than for Titus. This is the last issue for the Lyon workshop, which then closed its doors for more than a century.
Lightweight. Type 2 ribbons. This type is actually much rarer than general works suggest and is more easily found for Vespasian than for Titus. This is the last issue for the Lyon workshop, which then closed its doors for more than a century.
Historical background
TITUS
(1/07/69-13/09/81)
Augustus with Vespasianus
Titus, born December 30, 39, is the eldest son of Vespasian. He follows his father to Judea, where he is legate of the XV Apollinaris legion. After the proclamation of Alexandria, Vespasian leaves it to him to complete the pacification of Judea, during which he falls in love with Bérénice (cf. Racine's play). After the capture of Jerusalem in the summer of 70, he celebrated the triumph with his father in January 71. Associated with power by his father, he succeeded him on June 24, 79, having broken with the beautiful Jewish princess in 75. His reign n is only a series of disasters: the eruption of Vesuvius on August 24, 79 which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, then the fire of Rome in 80. He died in 81, perhaps assassinated at the instigation of his brother, Domitian (Suetonius).
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