bpv_666823 - COMMODUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 180
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,45 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince bien centré à l’usure régulière. Belle tête de Commode juvénile. Joli revers. Belle patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Commode à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AU KAI - KOMODOS, (Autokrator Kaisar Aurhlios Komodos°
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Commode).
Reverse
Reverse description : Trépied delphien autour duquel est enroulé un serpent.
Reverse legend : NIKOPOL-ITWN PROS IS (Nikopolitwn Pros Istron)
Reverse translation : (Nicopolis sur Istrum).
Commentary
Seulement un exemplaire signalé par les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage (sans photo). C’est le deuxième exemplaire signalé.
Historical background
COMMODUS
(166-31/12/192)
Augustus
Commodus succeeded his father Marc Aurèle, who died in Vienna on March 17, 180. He hastened to conclude a truce with the Germanic tribes and then abandoned public life. The Empire was successively governed by the prefects of the Praetorium, Perennis from 182 to 185, Cléandre from 185 to 190, who were both assassinated. Commodus suffocated on the night of December 31, 192.
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