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| Estimate : | 65 € |
| Price : | 61 € |
| Maximum bid : | 80 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 September 2019 14:27:30 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 172
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,07 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Flan bien centré, éclaté à 2h. Métal cristallisé en surface. Joli portrait
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor d’Alexandre (Vert-en-Drouais)
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS - AVG TR P XXVII.
Obverse description : Tête laurée, de Marc-Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunitia Potestaste septimum duodecimum", (Marc Antonin auguste revêtu de la vingt-septième puissance tributienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP - VI - COS III.
Reverse description : Rome casquée et drapée assise à gauche tenant une victoriola dans la main droite et une lance de la gauche ; un bouclier orné d'une tête de méduse est accolé au trône.
Reverse translation : "Imperator sextum Consul tertium", (L’empereur revêtu de la sixième acclamation impériale consul pour la troisième fois).
Commentary
C’est la première fois que nous présentons cet exemplaire à la vente !.
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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