Live auction - bpv_519106 - MARCUS AURELIUS Decassaria
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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 29 January 2019 14:31:00 |
Type : Decassaria
Date: c. 169-175
Mint name / Town : Smyrne, Ionie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 25,58 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable. Sans patine avec des restes d’argenture
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Marc Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AU K M AU - ANT(WN)INOS.
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus de Laodicée debout à gauche, tourné à droite, tenant un long sceptre de la main gauche et un aigle de la main droite face à Zeus Acraios assis à droite, tourné à gauche, tenant une niké de la main droite et un long sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : ATTALOS SOFISTHS TAIS PATRISI// SMUR. LAO
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Reverse translation : (Attale sophiste tais Patrie/ Smyrne et Laodicée.
Commentary
Ce médaillon a pu être utilisé comme décoration (phalère) ce qui expliquerait pourquoi il a été argenté au droit et son usure importante.
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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