Live auction - brm_740865 - COMMODUS Sesterce
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 290 € |
| Maximum bid : | 350 € |
| End of the sale : | 26 April 2022 15:01:23 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Sesterce
Date: 179
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 20,08 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Très joli portrait de Commode ainsi qu’un revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : L. AVREL COMMO-DVS AVG TR P IIII.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Commode à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Lucius Aurelius Commodus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate quartum”, (Lucius Aurèle Commode auguste revêtu de la quatrième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP III - COS II P. P./ S|C.
Reverse description : Minerve (Pallas), casquée, vêtue militairement et de l’égide debout à gauche, tenant un bouclier et une haste de la main gauche et sacrifiant de la main droite au-dessus d’un candélabre allumé.
Reverse translation : "Imperator tertium Consul iterum Pater Patriæ" (Revêtu de la troisième acclamation impériale consul pour la deuxième fois 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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