Herennius Etruscilla. 250 AD. Antioch, Roman Empire. Bi-Tetradrachm. 26mm, 13.36g.
$275.00
Type: Syrophoenician Tetradrachm
Date: 250
Mint name / Town: Antioch, Syria, Seleucia and Pieria
Metal: billon
Diameter: 26mm
Orientation dies: 7 a.m.
Weight: 13.36g.
Rarity: R3
COMMENTS ON THE CONDITION:
Copy on a thick flan perfectly centered on both sides. Beautiful bust of Etruscille. Reverse of fine style and high relief. Beautiful superficial gray patina with golden reflections. Retains most of its original strike gloss and sharpness
REFERENCES CATALOG:
Prior 616 (2 ex) - McAlee 1168(a)
OBVERSE
Obverse description: Draped and diademed bust of Herennia Etruscilla right, seen from three-quarters forward, resting on a lunar crescent (L15), a globule under the bust.
Obverse legend: ERENNIA TROUSKILLA SEB.
Obverse translation: (Emperor Caesar Caius Messius Quintus Trajan Decius Augustus).
REVERSE
Reverse legend: S C AT THE EXERGUE.
Reverse description: Eagle standing left on palm, wings outstretched, head left and tail right, holding wreath in beak.
Reverse legend: DHMARC EX OUSIAS.
Reverse translation: (Entrusted with tribunician power / with the agreement of the Senate of Antioch).
COMMENTARY
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, six examples are now listed for this type, only one in the museum at Doura/Yale.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
ETRUSCILLE
(251)
Wife of Trajan Decius, mother Herennius etruscus and Hostilianus - Augusta
Etruscille is derived from the Italian aristocracy. She is aged about forty years when he receives the title of Augusta in 249, as part of the second issue of Trajan Decius. The following year, his eldest son Herennius etruscus received the title of Caesar, and proclaimed August when his father went to fight the Goths. They will find both death. Before leaving, Trajan Decius Caesar appointed his second son, who was proclaimed Hostilianus August after the death of his father and his brother, perhaps at the instigation of new August Trebonianus Galle. Etruscille, who had remained in Rome, continues to be associated with counterfeiting. Hostilianus dies at the end of summer or early fall of 251 victims of the plague or of his protector, Trebonianus Galle, who hastens to proclaim his son Volusien august. Étruscille disappears from the coinage. She retired into private life was perhaps murdered, history does not say.Type: Syrophoenician Tetradrachm
Date: 250
Mint name / Town: Antioch, Syria, Seleucia and Pieria
Metal: billon
Diameter: 26mm
Orientation dies: 7 a.m.
Weight: 13.36g.
Rarity: R3
COMMENTS ON THE CONDITION:
Copy on a thick flan perfectly centered on both sides. Beautiful bust of Etruscille. Reverse of fine style and high relief. Beautiful superficial gray patina with golden reflections. Retains most of its original strike gloss and sharpness
REFERENCES CATALOG:
Prior 616 (2 ex) - McAlee 1168(a)
OBVERSE
Obverse description: Draped and diademed bust of Herennia Etruscilla right, seen from three-quarters forward, resting on a lunar crescent (L15), a globule under the bust.
Obverse legend: ERENNIA TROUSKILLA SEB.
Obverse translation: (Emperor Caesar Caius Messius Quintus Trajan Decius Augustus).
REVERSE
Reverse legend: S C AT THE EXERGUE.
Reverse description: Eagle standing left on palm, wings outstretched, head left and tail right, holding wreath in beak.
Reverse legend: DHMARC EX OUSIAS.
Reverse translation: (Entrusted with tribunician power / with the agreement of the Senate of Antioch).
COMMENTARY
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, six examples are now listed for this type, only one in the museum at Doura/Yale.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
ETRUSCILLE
(251)
Wife of Trajan Decius, mother Herennius etruscus and Hostilianus - Augusta
Etruscille is derived from the Italian aristocracy. She is aged about forty years when he receives the title of Augusta in 249, as part of the second issue of Trajan Decius. The following year, his eldest son Herennius etruscus received the title of Caesar, and proclaimed August when his father went to fight the Goths. They will find both death. Before leaving, Trajan Decius Caesar appointed his second son, who was proclaimed Hostilianus August after the death of his father and his brother, perhaps at the instigation of new August Trebonianus Galle. Etruscille, who had remained in Rome, continues to be associated with counterfeiting. Hostilianus dies at the end of summer or early fall of 251 victims of the plague or of his protector, Trebonianus Galle, who hastens to proclaim his son Volusien august. Étruscille disappears from the coinage. She retired into private life was perhaps murdered, history does not say.Type: Syrophoenician Tetradrachm
Date: 250
Mint name / Town: Antioch, Syria, Seleucia and Pieria
Metal: billon
Diameter: 26mm
Orientation dies: 7 a.m.
Weight: 13.36g.
Rarity: R3
COMMENTS ON THE CONDITION:
Copy on a thick flan perfectly centered on both sides. Beautiful bust of Etruscille. Reverse of fine style and high relief. Beautiful superficial gray patina with golden reflections. Retains most of its original strike gloss and sharpness
REFERENCES CATALOG:
Prior 616 (2 ex) - McAlee 1168(a)
OBVERSE
Obverse description: Draped and diademed bust of Herennia Etruscilla right, seen from three-quarters forward, resting on a lunar crescent (L15), a globule under the bust.
Obverse legend: ERENNIA TROUSKILLA SEB.
Obverse translation: (Emperor Caesar Caius Messius Quintus Trajan Decius Augustus).
REVERSE
Reverse legend: S C AT THE EXERGUE.
Reverse description: Eagle standing left on palm, wings outstretched, head left and tail right, holding wreath in beak.
Reverse legend: DHMARC EX OUSIAS.
Reverse translation: (Entrusted with tribunician power / with the agreement of the Senate of Antioch).
COMMENTARY
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, six examples are now listed for this type, only one in the museum at Doura/Yale.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
ETRUSCILLE
(251)
Wife of Trajan Decius, mother Herennius etruscus and Hostilianus - Augusta
Etruscille is derived from the Italian aristocracy. She is aged about forty years when he receives the title of Augusta in 249, as part of the second issue of Trajan Decius. The following year, his eldest son Herennius etruscus received the title of Caesar, and proclaimed August when his father went to fight the Goths. They will find both death. Before leaving, Trajan Decius Caesar appointed his second son, who was proclaimed Hostilianus August after the death of his father and his brother, perhaps at the instigation of new August Trebonianus Galle. Etruscille, who had remained in Rome, continues to be associated with counterfeiting. Hostilianus dies at the end of summer or early fall of 251 victims of the plague or of his protector, Trebonianus Galle, who hastens to proclaim his son Volusien august. Étruscille disappears from the coinage. She retired into private life was perhaps murdered, history does not say.
