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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Hostilian| > RB91612
Hostilian, Summer - November 251 A.D.
|Hostilian|, |Hostilian,| |Summer| |-| |November| |251| |A.D.|, When Augustus ruled Rome, he was not called emperor or king, he was the Princeps, the "first of men." In the empire, the designated successors to the emperor were named caesar and also given the title Princeps Juventutis, the "first of youths." This is the origin of the English word prince, meaning the son of a monarch.
RB91612. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC IV 215, Cohen V 31, Hunter III 8, SRCV III 9573, TOOLED, Rome mint, weight 12.411g, maximum diameter 28.2mm, die axis 0o, as caesar, 250 - early 251 A.D.; obverse C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINTVS N C, bare headed and draped bust right, seen from behind; reverse PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS (to the Prince of Youth), Apollo seated left, extending laurel branch in right hand, resting left elbow on kithara (lyre), S C (senatus consulto) in exergue; from the Maxwell Hunt Collection, TOOLED, AS IS, NO RETURNS; rare; SOLD










OBVERSE| LEGENDS|

COVALOSTILMESCOVINTVSAVG
COVALOSTILMESCOVINTVSCAESAR
COVLOSTILMESCOVINTVSCAESAR
CVALENSHOSTILMESQVINTVSNC
CVALENSHOSMESQVINTVSNC
CVALHOSMESQVINTVSNC
CVALHOSTMESQVINTVSNC
CVALHOSTILMESQVINTVSNC
CVALENSHOSTILMESCOVINTVSAVG
CVALENSHOSTILMESQVINTVSAVG
IMPCAECVALHOSMESQVINTVSAVG
IMPCMESQVINTVSAVG

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