v21_2681 - COMMODUS Denier
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 150.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 150.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 178
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,46 g.
Officine: 6e
Emission: 36e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait juvénile imberbe. Jolie patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : L AVREL COM-MODVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Commode à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Lucius Aurelius Commodus Augustus", (Lucius Aurèle Commode auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : C-OS - P. P.
Reverse description : Roma (Rome) ou Minerve casquée et drapée ; debout à gauche, tenant un victoriola de la main droite et une haste de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Consul Pater Patriæ", (consul père de la patrie).
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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