v13_0187 - VESPASIAN Tétradrachme

MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 76.22 €
Estimate : 152.45 €
Realised price : 76.22 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 94.52 €

Type : Tétradrachme

Date: an 2

Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte

Metal : billon

Diameter : 24,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 12,38 g.

Coments on the condition:

Flan très large. Beaux portraits. Patine marron

Catalogue references :

BMC.233 - Milne388 - Curtis255 - MRKA.188 - RPC.2411 - SNG. France 4735

Obverse

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

Obverse legend : AUTOK KAIS SEB AOUESPASIANOU/ LB (Autokrator Kaisar Sebastos Aouespasianou)

Obverse translation : (Imperator César Auguste Vespasien).

Reverse

Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) drapée debout à gauche, tenant des épis de la main droite et un caducée de la main gauche.

Reverse legend : EI-RH-NH (eirhnh)

Reverse translation : (la Paix).

Commentary

Pour ce type, les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ont répertorié 43 exemplaires.
For this type, the authors of the Roman Provincial Coinage have listed 43 examples

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.

VESPASIAN Reproduction du sesterce de Judée VF

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