brm_786752 - ANTONINUS PIUS and MARCUS AURELIUS CAESAR Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 139
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 23,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée, fissurée à 1h. Usure importante. Buste de Marc Aurèle agréable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANTONINVS - AVG PIVS P P .
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Antonin le Pieux à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Antoninus Augustus Pius Pater Patriæ Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium”, (Antonin auguste pieux père de la patrie revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS DES// S. C.
Reverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Marc Aurèle à gauche (A°01).
Reverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius Consul/ Senatus Consulto”, (Aurèle césar fils de pieux auguste consul/ avec l’accord du Sénat).
Commentary
Intéressante émission dynastique.
Historical background
ANTONINUS PIUS and MARCUS AURELIUS CAESAR
(140-161)
On Hadrian's recommendation, Antonin adopted Marc Aurèle and Lucius Vérus. On the coinage, Marcus Aurelius appeared in 139. He took his first consulship on January 1, 140 and his second consulship on January 1, 145. He married the daughter of Antoninus, Faustina young. The following year, at the birth of their first child, he received his first tribunician power. In 161, he succeeded his adoptive father.
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