bpv_718623 - MARCUS AURELIUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 139-160
Mint name / Town : Topirus, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,54 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré à l’usure régulière. Joli revers. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle César à droite (O°).
Obverse legend : OUHROS KAISAR.
Obverse translation : (Vérus césar).
Reverse
Reverse description : Dieu fleuve allongé à gauche sur un rocher, tenant une corne d’abondance relevée de la main droite et un roseau de la main gauche, le coude posé sur un vase qui deverse son flot.
Reverse legend : TOPEIREITWN.
Reverse translation : (de Topirus).
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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