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Sestertius of Emperor Decimus Caelius Balbinus
Title
[Sestertius of Emperor Decimus Caelius Balbinus] [realia].
Production
[Italy], [ca. 238]
Physical Description
1 item ; diameter 3 cm
Notes
Title from dealer's catalog.
Date taken from dealer's catalog.
Laureate-draped and cuirassed bust r., rev., Victory aug., Victory standing facing, holding wreath and palm (RIC 25).
Balbinus, Roman orator, poet and statesman, appointed in 238 by the Senate as joint emperor of Rome and murdered the same year by soldiers of the Praetorian Guard at Rome. (The New Century Cyclopedia of Names, ed. Clarence L. Barnhard [New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1954] col. 1, p. 318).
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Didius Julian, rare; Albinus, 2; Caracalla, 2; Julia, Mæsa, Alexander, Barbia, Orbiana (very rare); Maximinus, Diva Paulina, rare; Maximus Cæsar, and Balbinus.
Exhibited at the Sterling Memorial Library, September-November 14, 1993.
Provenance
Horace Walpole; 1842, May 4, Strawberry Hill Sale, Day 9, Lot 40, bt Dr. Rawlins, £3.3.0 (with 11 other coins); ?Holber and Veze Collections; 1901, March 20-21, Sotheby's, The I.I. Mason Collection, Lot 245, £10.6.0; 1950, November 16-21, Sotheby's, The Henry Platt Hall Sale, Lot 1842, bt Spink for W.S. Lewis; The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Summary
This sestertius, originally equivalent to the value of about four asses, was among the many hundreds of ancient coins in Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill.
Format
Other
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
March 26, 2015
References
Sestertius of Emperor Decimus Caelius Balbinus. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Sestertius of Emperor Decimus Caelius Balbinus. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Coins.
Coins and medals.
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