Live auction - brm_385785 - MARCUS AURELIUS Aureus
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| Estimate : | 8 000 € |
| Price : | 7 700 € |
| Maximum bid : | 7 700 € |
| End of the sale : | 19 April 2016 14:34:58 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Aureus
Date: 169
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,14 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large et ovale parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de Marc Aurèle de toute beauté où tous les détails de la barbe et de la chevelure sont visibles. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés irisés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Exemplaire provenant de la collection F.L.
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS - AVG TR P XXIII.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Marc Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate tertium vicesimum”, (Marc Antonin auguste germanique revêtu de la vingt-troisième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICITAS - AVG COS III.
Reverse description : Felicitas (La Félicité) debout à gauche, tenant un caducée de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Augusti consul tertium”, (La Félicité de l’auguste, consul pour la troisième fois).
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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