E-auction 100-52732 - brm_160955 - COMMODUS Denier
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| Estimate : | 175 € |
| Price : | 110 € |
| Maximum bid : | 115 € |
| End of the sale : | 16 March 2015 15:23:00 |
| bidders : | 10 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 175-176
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,93 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait juvénile. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Recouvert d’une jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : COMMODO CAES AVG - FIL GERM SARM.
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Commode à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Obverse translation : “Commodo Cæsari Augusto Filii Germanico Sarmatico”, (À Commode César fils d’auguste germanique sarmatique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HIL-A-R-ITAS.
Reverse description : Hilaritas (l’Allégresse) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une palme longue de la main droite e tune corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Hilaritas”, (L’Allégresse).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce denier est en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent penser les ouvrages généraux.
Historical background
COMMODUS
(166-31/12/192)
Caesar
Commodus was born in the purple on August 31, 161. Son of Marcus Aurelius and young Faustina, his twin brother died very early, in 165 or 166. He received the title of Caesar on this date but he was not really associated with power. only at the time of the revolt of Avidius Cassius in 175, after the death of Faustina Young in Cappadocia. For the first time since Nerva, the Emperor does not choose his successor by adoption, but raises his own offspring to august. Commodus, associated with the Empire from 176-177, will succeed his father in 180.
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