Live auction - brm_408405 - COMMODUS Denier
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| Estimate : | 350 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 08 November 2016 14:40:04 |
Type : Denier
Date: 178
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,98 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste de Commode juvénile inhabituel. Joli revers de style fin. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : L AVREL COM-MODVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Commode à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Lucius Aurelius Commodus Augustus", (Lucius Aurèle Commode auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR P III - IM-P II - COS P P.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) drapée assise à gauche, tenant une branche de la main droite tendue ; à ses pieds, un serpent.
Reverse translation : "Tribunicia Potestate tertium Imperator iterum Consul Pater Patriæ", (revêtu de la troisième puissance tribunitienne de la deuxième salutation impériale consul pour la première fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Buste inhabituel de Commode. Représentation inhabituelle de la Santé qui ne fait son apparition que pendant cette émission et cette année là, peut-être liée à une maladie de Marc Aurèle.
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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