Maison Palombo
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Crispine (177-183) - Aureus - Rome (180-183).
Très rare et d'une qualité remarquable.
Exemplaire de la vente Triton XIX du 5 janvier 2016, N° 590 et de la vente MDC 1 du 2 décembre 2016, N° 102 et de la vente Palombo 16 du 21 octobre 2017, N° 51.
7.16g - C. 29 - RIC 285 - Cal. 2374
FDC - NGC MS (5/5 et 4/5)
The cult of Pudicity, goddess of modesty and chastity, existed during the Roman Republic, but it only appeared on coins under Trajan and his second- century AD successors. It appears here on a coin of Bruttia Crispina (AD 164-191), since the summer of AD 178 the very wealthy, but also reportedly beautiful, wife of the Emperor Commodus (AD 161-180-192). Her beauty on this portrait suggests that the coin was struck before she was banished to the island of Capri in AD 182 (possibly after a plot to have her husband murdered - or more simply because she had been unfaithful).
Très rare et d'une qualité remarquable.
Exemplaire de la vente Triton XIX du 5 janvier 2016, N° 590 et de la vente MDC 1 du 2 décembre 2016, N° 102 et de la vente Palombo 16 du 21 octobre 2017, N° 51.
7.16g - C. 29 - RIC 285 - Cal. 2374
FDC - NGC MS (5/5 et 4/5)
The cult of Pudicity, goddess of modesty and chastity, existed during the Roman Republic, but it only appeared on coins under Trajan and his second- century AD successors. It appears here on a coin of Bruttia Crispina (AD 164-191), since the summer of AD 178 the very wealthy, but also reportedly beautiful, wife of the Emperor Commodus (AD 161-180-192). Her beauty on this portrait suggests that the coin was struck before she was banished to the island of Capri in AD 182 (possibly after a plot to have her husband murdered - or more simply because she had been unfaithful).