bpv_312394 - COMMODUS Hexassaria
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Price : 275.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 275.00 €
Type : Hexassaria
Date: c. 176
Mint name / Town : Byzance, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 18,28 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Commode jeune. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine marron foncé avec de petites oxydations vertes au revers
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection de J.-P. Righetti et de la vente CNG electronic 216, n° 306
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Commode à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : AUT K L AUR - KOMODOS.
Obverse translation : (Lempereur césar Lucius Aurélius Commode).
Reverse
Reverse description : Torche de jeu.
Reverse legend : BUZANTIWN. EPI -LI. PONTIKOU (HR).
Reverse translation : (de Byzance du magistrat Licinius Ponticos).
Commentary
Buste juvénile. Un seul ruban visible. Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum.
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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