v08_0180 - VESPASIAN Hemidrachme

AU/XF

MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 99.09 €
Estimate : 144.83 €
unsold lot

Type : Hemidrachme

Date: 71

Mint name / Town : Césarée, Cappadoce

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : + 800 ‰

Diameter : 14 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 1,70 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Bel exemplaire sur un flan un peu court, mais complet, légèrement taché / Frappe un peu faible au revers

Catalogue references :

BMC.20/96-17 - Syd.95/44 - Aulock6362 - GIC.735

Obverse

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Vespasien à droite (O*).

Obverse legend : AUTOKR KAISAR OUESPASIANOS SEB

Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Vespasien auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Niké (Victoire) marchant à droite, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.

Historical background

VESPASIAN

(1/07/69-24/06/79)

Vespasien was born in 9. In 66, Néron entrusts to him, with a proconsulate and three legions, the care of repressing the revolt of Judea which has just burst. The war will last four years and will end with the capture and destruction of Jerusalem. Proclaimed august on July 1, 69 in Alexandria and sole holder of the title after the assassination of Vitellius on December 20, he did not arrive in Rome until October 70. The first of the Flavians was a great emperor who undertook numerous political reforms, administrative and economic. For the record, he is the creator of the vespasiennes, ancestor of public toilets. He would have made the remark about them that "money has no smell" because the collected urine was sold to the fullers of Rome.

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