bpv_608260 - MARCUS AURELIUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 140
Mint name / Town : Éphèse, Ionie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais bien centré. Beau portrait de Marc Aurèle César. Revers inhabituel. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Marc Aurèle César à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Obverse legend : OU-HROS - KAISAR.
Obverse translation : (Vérus césar).
Reverse
Reverse description : Diane dans un char galopant à droite tiré par deux cerfs.
Reverse legend : EFE/SIWN.
Reverse translation : (d’Éphèse).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que les exemplaires de Paris et de Vienne. C’est le quatrième exemplaire signalé avec un coin de droit et deux coins de revers.
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(139-03/17/180)
Caesar
Born on April 26, 121, Marc Aurèle lost his father at the age of 9. He is the grandson of Marcus Annius Verus, brother-in-law of Hadrian and related to Trajan, and the son of Domitia Lucilla, half-sister of Hadrian. He received a careful education with Herod Atticus and Fronton as teachers. In 135, he converted to stoicism, the source of his inspiration for writing the Pensées. After the death of Aelius, he is adopted by Antoninus, just like Lucius Verus, at the request of the dying Hadrian. After July 10, 138, he was engaged to Faustina, born in 128 or 132, whom he married in 145. Caesar from 139, wearing the consulate in 140, Marc Aurèle received tribunician power in 147 and succeeded Antoninus in 161.
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