Annius Verus quadrans

[bbernard]

16mm-2gr

J'ai lu que Cohen appelait ce petit médaillon une tessere commémorative ; Auriez vous des renseignements plus récents et plus précis . Merci d'avance

[ALM]

bonsoir

 

un quadrans

 

très bonne cote !

 

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Annius Verus, Caesar Æ quadrans, 166-170 AD, 2nd son of Marcus Aurelius,

2.65gm, 17.2mm. 

Obv: Veiled head of a young child right wearing flower garland and necklace of flowers, who personifies Spring. 

Rev: S•C within vine wreath with grape bunches. 

J. van Heesch, "Une représentation remarquable …" in SPNO I, pl. XXV, 6;

RIC II p219, 35; Cohen 31. 

gVF/aEF, arguably better preserved than the best preserved example of the “Spring” issue to be sold in a major auction in the last 13 years (i.e. CNG’s lot 1230 in their 19 September 2001 Mail Bid Sale 58).

This type is one of four, one for each season, each type showing the head of a young child as the personification of the season.  The child has been identified by Cohen and others as Annius Verus, who died very young, and was the second son of Marcus Aurelius and younger brother of Commodus.  This identification has been disputed by the modern scholar van Heesch (see reference above).  Van Heesch argues that the obverse images for the four seasons represent separate children, each a pure personification of a season, and not the same child or a real child.  For whatever it means to the argument, it should be noted that the portraits for three of the seasons have very similar facial features on most specimens, while the portraits for Winter on surviving specimens usually display more delicate features.

[bbernard]

merci .