E-auction 58-26431 - bpv_282978 - MARCUS AURELIUS Assarion
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| Estimate : | 95 € |
| Price : | 32 € |
| Maximum bid : | 35 € |
| End of the sale : | 26 May 2014 16:26:00 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Assarion
Date: c. 161-180
Mint name / Town : Nicée, Bithynie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,85 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flanépais, décentré sur la légende au droit. Belle tête de Marc Aurèle. Joli revers. Belle patine vert olive
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : ANTWN.
Obverse translation : (Antonin...).
Reverse
Reverse description : Serpent sortant à droite de la ciste mystique.
Reverse legend : NIKA-IEWN, (Nilaiewn).
Reverse translation : (de Nicée).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3.
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(139-03/17/180)
Augustus
Caesar from 139, wearing the consulship for 140, Marc Aurèle receives tribunician power in 147 and succeeds Antonin in 161. His personal reign is marked by the Parthian war (162-165). After the death of Lucius Verus in 169, he had to face the Germanic invasions and the plague which ravaged the Empire. Marcus Aurelius associates his son Commodus with the Empire from 175 and dies of the plague in 180 in Vienna.
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