brm_508884 - COMMODUS Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 175
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 22,42 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste de Commode César. Traces de circulation plus importantes au revers mais il reste parfaitement identifiable. Patine vert foncé
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Exemplaire provenant de la collection Robert Couet
Obverse
Obverse legend : L AVREL COMMODO CAES AVG FIL GERM SARM.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue de Commode à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°2).
Obverse translation : “Lucio Aurelio Commodo Cæsari Augusto Filio Germanico Sarmatico” (À Lucius Aurelius Commodus césar, fils de Marc Aurèle germanique et sarmatique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI - CONSE-RVATORI/ S|C.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu, le manteau sur l'épaule droite, tenant un foudre ailé de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche ; à ses pieds à gauche, Commode debout à gauche, vêtu de la toge.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori”, (À Jupiter conservateur).
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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