Syria, Antioch, Hostilian
190,00 €
Description
Syria, Antioch, Hostilian as Caesar (250 – 251 AD). ΓO VAΛ OCTIΛIAN ME KYINTOC KECAP; bareheaded and draped bust right / ANTIOXEΩN MHTPOKOΛΩN; tetrastyle temple, Tyche within, river-god Orontes swimming below, ram leaping right above the temple, Δ-E across fields, SC in ex.
Specifications
| Diameter [mm]: | AE30 |
| Weight [g]: | 14,68 |
| Grade: | aVF/aVF |
| Attribution: | McAlee 1163 |
| Commentary: | attractive dark olive-brown sand patina, well centered, good details |
Historical Context
Hostilian survived the death of his father, Trajan Decius, and brother, Herennius Etruscus, on the battlefield and stayed nominally the co-emperor of Trebonianus Gallus, dying only some months later in the plague epidemic - the first emperor after Septimius Severus (211) to die of natural causes.
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