bpv_671701 - TRAJAN DECIUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Price : 480.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 250
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,29 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau buste de Trajan Dèce. Joli revers de haut relief et de style fin le tout servi par une très belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Trajan Dèce à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2), cinq globules sous le buste.
Obverse legend : AUT K G ME KU DEKIOS TRAIANOS SEB
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Caius Messius Quintus Dèce Trajan 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
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, dix-sept exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés pour ce type, dont neuf en musée, à Paris, l’ANS (2), Berlin, Gaziantep, Oxford et Doura/Yale (3). Cet exemplaire est illustré dans l’ouvrage de Richard McAlee, p. 369, n° 1120e.
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, seventeen examples are now listed for this type, including nine in museums, in Paris, the ANS (2), Berlin, Gaziantep, Oxford and Doura/Yale (3). This example is illustrated in the work of Richard McAlee, p. 369, n° 1120e
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, seventeen examples are now listed for this type, including nine in museums, in Paris, the ANS (2), Berlin, Gaziantep, Oxford and Doura/Yale (3). This example is illustrated in the work of Richard McAlee, p. 369, n° 1120e
Historical background
TRAJAN DECIUS
(07/249-06/251)
Decius was born in 201 in Lower Pannonia. After a brilliant career which opened the doors of the Senate to him, he was governor of Lower Moesia under the reign of Alexander Severus. At the end of the reign of Philip, winner on the Danube of barbarian hordes, he was proclaimed august despite his refusal. He writes it to Philippe who does not believe him and marches against him. Philip and his son are killed in battle near Verona. Decius joins to his name that, prestigious, of Trajan. After a stint in Rome, Decius travels to the Danubian Limes. Deserted, the limes allowed the Goths to filter through, ravaging the Danubian provinces, where the Emperor originated. He fails to stem the invasion. From 250, a new plague ravages the Empire. The plague decimated population and herds and further weakened the limes. He began a persecution against Christians in 250 (Polyeucte, Corneille). The following year, he went to the limes, defeated the Goths, but his son was killed. He himself finds death while wanting to avenge him. He is the first emperor to fall in battle against the Barbarians.
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