v08_0259 - COMMODUS Tridrachme
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
unsold lot
Type : Tridrachme
Date: 175
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Cappadoce
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,33 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Faiblesse de frappe sur la légende au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue de Commode à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°2).
Obverse legend : KOMMODW KAIS SEB UIw
Obverse translation : (Commode César auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face sur une base ou une massue, les ailes déployées, la tête à droite.
Reverse legend : GERMAN S-ARMAT
Reverse translation : (Germanique et sarmatique).
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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