Live auction - brm_672407 - MARCUS AURELIUS Aureus
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| Estimate : | 7 500 € |
| Price : | 8 800 € |
| Maximum bid : | 9 200 € |
| End of the sale : | 15 June 2021 15:03:18 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Aureus
Date: 153-154
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 7,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés, éclaté à 1h. Très beau buste, finement détaillé. Joli revers. La monnaie a conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine. De légères marques dans les champs. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAE-SAR AVG PII F.
Obverse description : Buste, tête nue, drapé et cuirassé de Marc Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius”, (Aurèle césar auguste fils d'Antonin le Pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR PO-T - VIII COS II.
Reverse description : Rome nicéphore debout à gauche, casquée et vêtue militairement, tenant de la main droite une victoriola et de la gauche, le parazonium.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate octavum Consul iterum” (Revêtu de la huitième puissance tribunicienne, consul pour la deuxième fois).
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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