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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7476902, member: 86498"]This has to be my favorite thunderbolt. This coin is interesting in that back in 2005 when I bought it no one loved it. It was remaindered and I bought it after the auction had closed. Furthermore this coin is part of a major shift in the propaganda centering on the emperors fitness to rule. Up to the time of Trajan that was simply his ability as a military commander. Under Hadrian and then Pius the notion became that he was emperor because of the wisdom of the gods. In this coin Pius alludes to that theory using the thunderbolt of Jupiter and the legend PROVIDENTIAE DEORVM.</p><p>Sestertius of Antoninus Pius 142 AD Obv. Head right laureate Rv Winged thunderbolt RIC 618 23.63 grms 30 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1294378[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7476902, member: 86498"]This has to be my favorite thunderbolt. This coin is interesting in that back in 2005 when I bought it no one loved it. It was remaindered and I bought it after the auction had closed. Furthermore this coin is part of a major shift in the propaganda centering on the emperors fitness to rule. Up to the time of Trajan that was simply his ability as a military commander. Under Hadrian and then Pius the notion became that he was emperor because of the wisdom of the gods. In this coin Pius alludes to that theory using the thunderbolt of Jupiter and the legend PROVIDENTIAE DEORVM. Sestertius of Antoninus Pius 142 AD Obv. Head right laureate Rv Winged thunderbolt RIC 618 23.63 grms 30 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1294378[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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