v21_2680 - COMMODUS Denier
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 155.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 220.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 155.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 220.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 177
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 33e
Coments on the condition:
Bien centré. Très beau portrait juvénile. Frappe un peu faible au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES L AVREL COMMODVS GERM SARM.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Commode à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B*4).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Lucius Aurelius Commodus Germanicus Sarmaticus” (L’empereur césar Lucius Aurèle Commode, germanique, sarmatique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT II - COS.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) marchant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Tribunicia potestate iterum Consul" (Revêtu de la deuxième puissance tribunitienne, consul).
Historical background
COMMODUS
(166-31/12/192)
Augustus with Marcus Aurelius
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 did not choose his successor by adoption, but raised his own offspring to the Augustate. Commode, associated with the Empire from 176-177, will succeed his father in 180.
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