bpv_792341 - COMMODUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 177-180
Mint name / Town : Cyrrhus, Syrie, Cyrrhestica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 8,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Commode à droite.
Obverse legend : AUTOKRA LO AU - KOMMODOS SEB.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus Kataibates assis à gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : DIOS KATEBATOU - KURHSTWN/ (Dios Katebatou/ Kyreston.
Reverse translation : (Le dieu Kataibates de Cyrrhus).
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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