bpv_880562 - COMMODUS Assarion
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Price : 80.00 €
Type : Assarion
Date: c. 190
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 2,59 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli portrait de Commode. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée et barbue de Commode à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT KAI AU - KOMODOS, (Autokrator Kaisaros Aurhlios Komodos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Aurèle Commode).
Reverse
Reverse description : Éros (Cupidon) ou Génius (Génie), nu et ailé debout à droite, les jambes croisées, tenant des deux mains une torche retournée posée sur un autel.
Reverse legend : NeIKOPOLEI PROS IST, (Nikopolitwn Pros Istros)
Reverse translation : (Nicopolis sur Istrum).
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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